Bosses at the giant Department of Human Services have more faith in technology than in their 36,000 public servants in delivering welfare payment reform, a conference in Canberra has been told. Department deputy secretary John Murphy said technology, an area where his department has struggled, was likely to be “the easiest part of the journey” of spending $1.5 billion in taxpayers’ money replacing the Centrelink payment system. The former NAB banker has told a tech conference the biggest challenge of the change program would be engaging and winning over the department’s 35,000 employees. The department has been riven by industrial strife since 2014 with workers now having rejected three times a new workplace agreement they fear would strip them of conditions and entitlements.
November 21, 2016
An application by Health Services Union (s.437 – Application for a protected action ballot order) will be determined by Commissioner Lee.
November 21, 2016
Former union official Derrick Belan and his niece, bookkeeper Danielle O’Brien, have been arrested and charged with a series of fraud-related offences worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The 45-year-old former New South Wales secretary of the National Union of Workers was arrested at his home at Berkshire Park in western Sydney yesterday and charged with 24 fraud-related offences worth $440,000 and two counts of belonging to a criminal group. Police alleged the pair misused union credit cards, processed false invoices and made fraudulent electronic transfers and withdrawals of funds from union accounts.
November 21, 2016
An application for approval of the St John of God Health Care – HSU – Health Professionals, Administrative, Clerical and Technical Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is being heard by Commissioner Lee in his Melbourne Chambers.
November 21, 2016
Calvary Home Care Services Ltd is dealing with a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Commissioner Wilson (Seehomchai).
November 18, 2016
An application for approval of the Alzheimer’s Australia Vic Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is before Commissioner Saunders in his Sydney Chambers.
November 18, 2016
An application by United Voice & Health Services Union (s.160 – Application to vary a modern award to remove ambiguity or uncertainty or correct error) is being heard by Deputy President Booth in Conference Rooms 14A and 14 B – Level 14 in Sydney at 10am.
November 18, 2016
Community Services #1 Incorporated is fighting a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by Robertson.
