Former leaders of the CFMEU construction and general division's Queensland branch have registered a public company to fund legal challenges on the same day the Albanese Government formally appointed an administrator.
Qantas has decided to support three FAAA same-job, same-pay claims for short-haul cabin crew and bring more workers in-house, while the union says the Albanese Government's IR reforms have also been "critical" in striking an in-principle deal variation for long-haul crew.
FWC president Adam Hatcher will convene a directions hearing next month into the Commission's own-initiative case to develop a "workable" award clause that removes impediments to working from home.
The FWC has accepted that a company made a HR manager redundant on her return from parental leave due to her discomfort with interviewing English-speaking job candidates and downsizing directions from its Chinese head office, rather than her status as a new mother.
Queensland's Miles Labor Government has quickly passed legislation to establish an administration scheme for the State-registered branch of the CFMEU's construction and general division.
A senior FWC member refused to terminate protected action at Endeavour Energy as the company failed to establish it threatened lives, safety or welfare, while the ETU has lost its challenge to a stay on strikes and bans hitting another NSW electricity provider.
The FWC has extended time for a worker's general protections application after one of its employees gave her "inappropriate" advice, after which she discontinued her initial claims.
The AFP has failed to convince the FWC that the Australian Federal Police Association's "cursory" approach to providing a list of officers who wanted to continue wearing their "accoutrements and radios" while on strike at airports meant the industrial action was unprotected and should therefore be stopped.
The FWC has found that a worker failed to establish an "objective rational connection" between her age and her flexible working request, after she resisted ANZ's hybrid working policy and asked to work 100% from home because of her fear of catching COVID-19.
The TWU will tomorrow lodge multiple test cases calling on the FWC's new road transport division to set minimum standards for food and parcel delivery gig workers and owner drivers, and make contract chain orders targeting retailers, manufacturers and oil companies.
