The FWC has described the "invidious choice" faced by hospitality employers and employees in jointly applying to vary the industry award in response to the exceptional challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Virgin Australia is standing down 80% of its 10,000-strong workforce, while suspending 90% of its domestic flight capacity and grounding 125 aircraft in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A casual worker has won an extension of more than 100 days to file a general protections claim after the Federal Circuit Court found he reasonably acted on incorrect FWO advice and filed his claim in the wrong court.
The FWC has this evening granted a joint AHA and UWU application to insert a special COVID-19 flexibility schedule in the hospitality award that expires in three months.
An FWC full bench has taken aim at the legal advice given to a group of Coles distribution centre workers who over the course of four years and four adverse findings continued to pursue what ultimately became a "hopeless" case related to their work duties.
FWC President Iain Ross will this afternoon hear a joint application by the UWU and the Australian Hotels Association to vary the hospitality award 2010 to help businesses to save jobs as the coronavirus crisis bites.
An FWC full bench has held that a tribunal member wrongly accepted an undertaking that "took the axe" to an agreement clause that she believed discriminated against older workers.
The coronavirus crisis has prompted the Morrison Government to suspend its consultations over further changes to IR laws, including the introduction of criminal penalties for the worst cases of underpayment.
The Federal Court has refused to "declass", provide an "opt-in" or make a common fund order for a major class action that is seeking entitlements for at least 3350 telecommunications workers allegedly misclassified as subcontractors.
