The Australian Industry Group is working with the ACTU to fast-track changes to key awards to increase the flexibility of working hours and leave in response to the coronavirus crisis.
The UWU has hailed decisions by casino operators Star Entertainment Group and Crown Resorts to make what are believed to be the country's first large-scale payments of two weeks' "pandemic leave" to almost 20,000 workers facing standdowns.
One of Australia's leading fashion groups will tomorrow shutter almost 1300 clothing stores and standdown about 6800 employees, as the retail sector buckles under the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
An FWC full bench has quashed a decision to compensate an "intentionally deviant" mineworker, finding a tribunal member wrongly focussed on a BHP subsidiary's perceived failure to follow its Fair Play disciplinary guidelines.
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.
