The "exceptional circumstances" created by COVID-19 warrant delaying the operative date of any minimum wage increase by a fortnight to July 15, according to the Ai Group, while the Victorian Government is calling for a rise of at least 3%.
Virgin Australia has warned of redundancies after deciding to suspend all international flights and to cut domestic capacity in half due to the coronavirus crisis.
Another FWC member has rejected full bench advice that they should, in the face of objections, withdraw from arbitrating disputes they have previously conciliated, dismissing claims she displayed "antipathy" towards the union seeking her recusal.
The ACTU has repeated its call for two weeks' paid leave for workers who are forced into isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, while it has established a webpage to 'name and fame' employers that have come to the party and has foreshadowed that it will be "calling out" employers that have not.
A court has held that BlueScope Steel repudiated the contracts of managerial employees by taking them off annualised salary arrangements under a 2015 Port Kembla steelworks rescue plan said to have cut their pay by more than $20,000.
Qantas has warned of a "significant labour surplus across its operations" after announcing plans to cut international flight capacity by 90% and domestic by 60%.
A court has ordered that the Fair Work Ombudsman refund company directors any restitution made to former employees if the regulator is unable to track them down within 28 days.
FWC member conference latest casualty of coronavirus; One-week reprieve for wage case submissions; Zero tolerance policies must be "clearly communicated"; and Virgin Australia asks workers to take leave.
A former ClubsNSW anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism finance compliance auditor who claims to be the whistleblower that leaked a board document to independent MP Andrew Wilkie is suing it for sham contracting, seeking about six years of allegedly unpaid leave entitlements.
The ASU has hit out at the FWO for letting Qantas off with a $390,500 "slap on the wrist" contrition fine for underpaying 640 misclassified head office workers by about $7.1 million, but the airline says its self-reported error also led to about $22 million in overpayments.
