Month in Review - May 2020
In the News
Safe Work Australia has released safety protocols to help guide businesses out of the coronavirus pandemic.
Cotton On reviewed its decisions on hundreds of casuals that it ruled as ineligible for the JobKeeper payment.
The National COVID-19 Coordination Commission released the Have a COVID-19 Plan to assist employers in preparing for their employees safe return to work when COVID-19 restrictions ease.
Coles employees have launched a class action for alleged underpayments over $150 million.
A lawsuit alleges that male traders and portfolio managers at Advent Capital Management, a New York hedge fund, ranked women on a 0-10 scale, called them demeaning names and categorised them as to whether they wanted to marry, kill or have sex with them.
In the Courts
The full bench of the Fair Work Commission has overturned the decision of Commissioner Simpson's decision to order compensation instead of reinstatement for a casual factory worker who was terminated for refusing to use the workplace's biometric scanning.
The Fair Work Commission has ordered the reinstatement, backpay and continuity of a BlueScope worker. Employers were warned to 'falsely amplify' safety hazards.
The Federal Court of Australia has held that a Fair Work Ombudsman's Notice to Produce for a franchisor was invalid. The Notice to Produce failed to particularise the alleged primary contraventions of the franchisor.
In the first JobKeeper decision, the FWC has found that a stood down part-time employee unreasonably refused a request to use one day of annual leave per week for 16 weeks.
The Federal Court of Australia has held that employees who have been stood down are not entitled to be paid personal/carer's leave. Justice Flick has followed the Mondelez decision, that paid personal/carer's leave is a form of income protection. As employees are stood down, they are not receiving an income to protect.
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