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 public sector employees must now "principally" work from their "approved" office or workplace, after the COVID-19-driven "disruption" to conventional work practices, according to the head of the State's Premier's Department.
In a significant decision on paid parental leave, a FWC presidential member has ordered a State-owned public transport provider to backpay a bus driver who claimed to be the primary carer of his newborn son while his wife recovered from an emergency caesarean section.
A tribunal member has torn up his own certificate sending an adverse action case to court after accepting he prematurely found that efforts to resolve the matter had been exhausted.
The FWC has laid bare the difficulty of running what amount to underpayment cases against universities, finding in a union-run matter that not only did the employer have no system in place to reliably record hours but that the tribunal lacked the power to order compensation anyway.
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.
Victoria Police rejected a crime scene officer's request for a flexible work arrangement on reasonable business grounds, the FWC has held, while urging the parties to embrace a "better than nothing" compromise.
Victoria's public sector nurses are set to decide whether to endorse a pay rise of 28% over four years after rejecting an earlier offer and closing hospital beds, while NSW nurses have handed the Minns Government a "business case" for a quick 15% uplift.
The Federal Circuit and Family Court has rejected a casual TAFE teacher's bid via its small claims jurisdiction to pursue her employer for failing to convert her to permanency, as it slashed her hours in the six months before the first anniversary of her start-date.
Unions NSW says that proposed base pay increases in this week's State budget amount to an "offer that workers and their unions can build on in bargaining" after the scrapping of public sector pay caps.
