For the second time in a fortnight, a senior FWC member's approval of an enterprise agreement has been quashed over a failure to explain why they rejected union concerns.
A CFMMEU official who had already clocked almost $40,000 in penalties for entry breaches has today landed a $10,000 personal payment order for entering a site to exercise an OHS right, just a month after surrendering his permit.
Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe said this afternoon that he expects annual wage growth to fall below 2% due to the response to the coronavirus 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.
The law firm behind a multi-million-dollar class action against labour hire provider One Key Resources and One Key Holdings says it will test the ability of vulnerable workers legislation to hold parent companies to account.
Labor will lobby the Senate crossbench to overturn the Morrison Government's new regulations that cut the notice period that employers are required to give employees of changes to enterprise agreements.
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
Umpire set to handle JobKeeper dispute; JobKeeper to cushion impact of COVID-19 job cuts; ABS quantifies coronavirus work reduction; Minimum wage bench seeks views on COVID-19; and Ratings agency warns Virgin running out of money.
The ASU says a group of law firms is yet to consult it on an application for coronavirus-driven changes to the Legal Services Award ahead of an FWC conference this afternoon, while the real estate industry is also seeking a variation.
