NSW PSA members have voted to accept a 10% pay rise over three years plus a 1% super boost in what State Treasurer Daniel Mookhey says is "proof that a mature government" can negotiate a deal that's good for both taxpayers and workers.
The NSW Supreme Court has ruled that a former chief executive's settlement of a dispute over the termination of his employment contract did not end his entitlement to a bonus triggered by the sale of the company.
NSW nurses and midwives have defied a tribunal's anti-strike orders, telling its members the State Government has left them with "no choice but to fight".
A leading IR law academic says he would not be surprised if the Albanese Government proposes a Fair Work court to operate alongside the FWC if it is returned at the next federal election, while SA Employment Tribunal President Stephen Dolphin recommends looking to the "exceptional" model in his State.
The PSA says it will "demand" the NSW IRC order a 5.2% minimum pay rise over 12 months plus super for thousands of public servants, after the tribunal recommended the Minns Government resolve salaries disputes by allowing it to arbitrate and potentially facilitate mutual gains bargaining under the State IR Act's new Chapter 2A provisions.
NSW IR Minister Sophie Cotsis has told Parliament a bill to place the CFMEU construction and general division's State branch into administration for five years "strikes the balance" between not interfering in unions' important role and stamping out "corruption and gross misconduct".
Justice Ingmar Taylor, the president of the NSW Industrial Court that has been re-established this month by the Minns Labor Government, has told a ceremony to celebrate its rebirth that the recent scrapping of the former government's public sector wages cap reinstates the "broad and unfettered power" to arbitrate disputes bestowed on the institution by the State IR Act's architect, Jeff Shaw.
In a decision an employer argues has "substantial" implications for most businesses, Fire & Rescue NSW has been ordered to pay a health and safety representative for time spent conducting unapproved inspections on his days off.
