The mining industry is calling for the scrapping of awards and agreements so they can cut pay and hours of work during the coronavirus crisis. Additionally, small business is demanding workers be denied unfair dismissal rights until September. Furthermore, they…
Queensland nurses will get a better deal after a surprise admission by the nurses union in the Fair Work Commission. The Queensland Nurses and Midwives Union (QNMU) wanted to ban the rival Nurses' Professional Association of Queensland (NPAQ) from participating…
A labour-hire company has agreed to back-pay 19 overseas workers to avoid legal action by the Fair Work Ombudsman. It has also promised to change the way it manages its workforce. Brisbane-based Agri-Labour Australia signed an Enforceable Undertaking with the…
Qantas has admitted to an embarrassing underpayment bungle involving 220 workers. Qantas discovered it had mistakenly employed the workers under individual contracts instead of enterprise agreements. As a result, the airline underpaid the workers an average of $8,000 a year…
Pizza Hut employees will now be paid proper fast food industry award rates, including increased penalty rates. The change comes as a result of the Fair Work Commission terminating 30 year-old expired workplace agreements. The fast food chain is the…
A major fashion retailer will finally be forced to pay its workers proper award wages and entitlements. The change comes as a result of the Fair Work Commission terminating an outdated Enterprise Agreement. Fashion retailer forced to pay proper wages…
Just two weeks before the Queensland parliamentary inquiry into wage theft gets underway, St Vincent’s Private Hospital Toowoomba has written to a number of former administration staff informing them they have been underpaid. The letter was sent at the same…
