The CPSU says it will vigorously oppose universities' use of a framework COVID-19 response deal negotiated with the NTEU, claiming it requires lower-paid professional staff to sacrifice pay and conditions in part to fund "exempt" casual academics.
The Morrison Government will issue new regulations to limit the life of enterprise agreements that are altered using shorter notice periods due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Qantas and Jetstar are seeking a Federal Court injunction stopping the FWC from arbitrating a dispute over the stand-down of hundreds of licenced aircraft maintenance engineers, plus declarations that it was outside their control.
A full Federal Court is likely before the end of the month to hear the CFMMEU's challenge to the Morrison Government's regulation that reduces from seven days to one day the required notice of changes to agreements during the coronavirus crisis.
Musicians and administrative employees at one of Australia's largest performing arts companies have been offered regular access to confidential financial reports as part of an agreement to cut wages and hours to the end of next year in response to COVID-19.
A Federal Court judge has promised today to rule swiftly on whether Qantas employees stood down due to the coronavirus pandemic can access paid personal (sick) leave, carers' leave and compassionate leave.
The CFMMEU has warned it will push back against construction employers seeking to make rapid changes to enterprise agreements which cut pay and conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
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.
