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Long service ruling exposes Optus to daily fines

Optus has failed in its bid to overturn a finding that short-changing workers' long service leave entitlements when they leave the telco might count as a continuing offence under Victoria's LSL legislation, potentially leaving it to clock-up daily fines until it rectified the alleged issue.


Union celebrates "significant" pay hike for Qantas workers

The ASU says it has secured big wins in a newly-approved Qantas deal after the Flying Kangaroo agreed to backdated 3% annual pay rises, an additional 3.6% from last week for a majority, greater roster stability and no outsourcing of members' ground handling work, though it will shift about 850 "senior professionals" onto individual contracts.


Stay for teacher accused of s-x with student

A tribunal has stayed a teacher's unfair dismissal claim while he awaits the result of his "working with children" check, after the NSW Department of Education sacked him for allegedly contacting a student on Grindr and then having s-x with him at school.


Leigh appointed to oversee DEWR

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has expanded the role of Assistant Minister Dr Andrew Leigh to include the administration of the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations.


Union backlash as Labor cuts 4000 jobs

Victoria's Andrews Labor government faces a backlash from public sector unions over a plan to cut up to 4000 jobs this year as part of a longer-term strategy to reduce debt incurred in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.


"Misclassified" casuals need quick path to entitlements: ACTU

The ACTU is calling on the Albanese Government to make it easier for those "misclassified" as casuals to recover their full entitlements, with its research showing casual workers earn nearly 11% less than permanent employees of the same skill level or occupation and most are in long-term arrangements.


FWC "condemns" union's off-limits analysis of deal

A senior FWC member has continued to resist CFMMEU intercession in the approval of non-union deals, condemning it for straying beyond his direction that it confine its submissions on a demolition company's rollover agreement to a BOOT assessment.


"Re-embrace" welfare, social security: Doyle

Former ACTU manager Mary Doyle has used her first parliamentary speech to urge Australians to "re-embrace" concepts of welfare and social security, drawing on her experiences of having an alcoholic father on an invalid pension and requiring support as she recovered from cancer surgery to aver that "these are not dirty words".



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