The four big banks are establishing hotlines for employers seeking bridging finance to make JobKeeper payments to employees and some 456,000 workers have applied for early access to super, according to the Morrison Government, which today expressed hopes of maintaining its "excellent working relationship" with the ACTU into the post-coronavirus economic recovery.
Unions have unveiled a website to gather case studies of employers allegedly rorting the JobKeeper scheme and its intended $1500-a-fortnight wage subsidy.
The CFMMEU has warned it will push back against construction employers seeking to make rapid changes to enterprise agreements which cut pay and conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Virgin Australia will continue to operate with its 10,500 strong workforce kept in employment and accessing the Morrison government's JobKeeper wage subsidy, according to its administrator, Deloitte, while the Federal Government has appointed a former Macquarie Bank leader to liaise with the administrator.
Virgin Australia Holdings Limited has this morning gone into voluntary administration, as unions intensify their campaign for the Morrison Government to intervene and save the airline's 16,000 direct and indirect jobs
The ACTU has warned the Morrison Government that it could end up footing the bill for $800 million in entitlements if Virgin Australia is allowed to collapse.
The Morrison Government is wrong in maintaining that its shorter notice periods for agreement variations will only have effect during the coronavirus crisis, because the resulting changes to agreements will continue for the deals' full terms, according to the shadow IR minister.
The Registered Organisation Commission's challenge to the Federal Court's quashing of its investigation into the AWU's past donations is set to be heard next month, while the regulator has completed its investigation of an employer organisation and is awaiting advice on whether it will deregister before taking further action.
The Morrison Government has cut the notice period that employers are required to give employees of proposed changes to enterprise agreements from seven days to a minimum one day.
The ACTU's push for paid pandemic leave in the broader health sector could extend to almost 1.6 million workers in the wake of FWC proceedings seeking to include the entitlement in a variety of related awards.
