South Australia's Weatherill Government is set to provide its public sector workforce with up to 15 days of domestic violence leave, while Queensland's Palaszczuk Government is giving its public sector employees 10 days a year and more flexible working arrangements from today.
The Fair Work Commission has invited union auditors to discuss the risks around the misuse of corporate credit cards, in the wake of allegations about the NUW's NSW branch that have been canvassed in Heydon Royal Commission hearings.
The Fair Work Commission will hear objections to the insertion of model annual leave terms into hospitality, mining and health sector modern awards at a hearing next month.
Paid domestic and family violence leave will become a universal workplace right if a Shorten Labor Government comes to power, the federal Opposition announced today.
Bullying complaints by NSW public sector employees appear to be falling from an "unacceptably high" level, along with associated compensation claims, while the government is in the final stages of developing an anti-bullying "dashboard", according to a new report from the state's Public Service Commission.
The AWU denies the controversial "side deal" with Cleanevent Australia led to the union breaching its fiduciary duties through the actions of former officials Cesar Melhem and John-Paul Blandthorn.
The FWC has for the second time approved an agreement covering the main Sydney Harbour ferry service workforce after dismissing the motivation for a belated scope order bid for masters and engineers as "little more than petty elitism rather than any genuine unfairness".
