The FAAA says the Qantas response to its first "same job, same pay" claims on behalf of domestic labour hire cabin crew will say "an awful lot" about the leadership of new chief executive Vanessa Hudson, as the union foreshadows more applications to come.
The ACTU's senior leadership team has today been re-elected unopposed, while unions have agreed to a 3% annual increase in their affiliation fees over the next three years.
ACTU secretary Sally McManus has declared "it's time” for unions to jettison their three-decades-old defensive stance and boldly take advantage of Labor’s IR law reforms to rebuild membership.
Shadow workplace relations minister Michaelia Cash has quizzed FWC general manager Murray Furlong on a "potentially serious" bullying or harassment allegation involving a tribunal member, and has questioned the ability of a former gang member to retain his entry permit while facing criminal charges.
A "broad coalition" of unions will call at this week's ACTU Congress in Adelaide for the peak group to press the Albanese Labor Government to legislate next year to insert 10 days reproductive health leave into the NES, according to key affiliate the Queensland Council of Unions.
Qantas decided to outsource about 1700 ground crew during the pandemic "come hell or high water", according to the Federal Court judge hearing the union compensation claim for the former employees.
Major mining companies targeted in a multi-employer bargaining test case have won access to an unredacted summary of legal advice provided to Professionals Australia, after the union undermined its claims of privilege with its broad sharing of a PowerPoint slide.
Unions are seeking a "total ban" on using AI to hire, fire, discipline or promote workers, along with an "AI tax", in submissions to a Senate inquiry accusing employers of introducing the technology without consultation and deploying it to police productivity.
