NSW IR Minister Sophie Cotsis says the Minns Government will only sign up to Federal Labor's proposed laws covering "employee-like" workers if they are at least as strong as those in her home state.
The Minns Government has announced a 4% pay offer for NSW public sector workers, plus a 0.5% superannuation boost, along with the creation of an interest-based bargaining taskforce headed by former FWC deputy president Anna Booth and former State IRC president Roger Boland.
As the NSW Minns Labor Government gears up for a major expansion of long service leave entitlements that will include portability for gig workers, IR Minister Sophie Cotsis says it has secured a record fine against Mosaic Brands for systemic LSL underpayments.
A tribunal has ordered a disability support service to pay a worker $10,000 damages and three months wages, after it failed to engage her because of her disability.
A two-year pay freeze is set to be imposed on NSW politicians earning more than a base salary and the State's high-earning bureaucrats as the Minns Labor Government vows to redirect the savings to "essential service" workers such as teachers and nurses.
The NSW IRC has rejected a senior public servant's bid to suppress her suspension for alleged corrupt conduct, holding to the notion of open justice while questioning why she failed to make the application earlier.
A tribunal has stayed a teacher's unfair dismissal claim while he awaits the result of his "working with children" check, after the NSW Department of Education sacked him for allegedly contacting a student on Grindr and then having s-x with him at school.
The ASU has welcomed an early NDIS review recommendation for the Albanese Government to collaborate with the states and territories to test a portable leave scheme, while the review panel says migrant workers should also enjoy the same standards as the domestic workforce.
Bench issues reasons for 15% aged care rise; Boland to conduct safety review; Tudehope returns to IR portfolio in Opposition; Entitlement Bill's super provision to remedy shortcoming, says Digest; and Enforceable undertakings for UTS, Uniting Agewell.
