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.
A major gas supplier has been ordered to reinstate a left-handed worker whose primary duties involved lifting five-kilogram cylinders, after basing his dismissal on an assessment that right shoulder and neck pain meant he could lift no more than 20kgs.
The ACTU has warned the Morrison Government that it could end up footing the bill for $800 million in entitlements if Virgin Australia is allowed to collapse.
The Morrison Government is wrong in maintaining that its shorter notice periods for agreement variations will only have effect during the coronavirus crisis, because the resulting changes to agreements will continue for the deals' full terms, according to the shadow IR minister.
In a decision clarifying how the FWC deals with unresolved matters in which the applicant has died, the tribunal has wound up a 20-month-old unfair dismissal case after determining that only executors of a claimant's estate can discontinue it.
