The Fair Work Commission has ratified the RSL Care Enterprise Agreement 2015.
March 23, 2016
More than 40,000 nurses and midwives will vote for the right to go on strike and close hospital beds in a move to ramp up demands for better pay. It comes as the powerful Victorian nurses’ union seeks substantial wage increases of between 3 and 20 per cent a year for its members in public hospitals and healthcare centres statewide. A log of claims handed to the Andrews government and health employers calls for Victorian wages to rise to the same rates as nurses and midwives in New South Wales. The weekly pay for the median nurse grading in Victoria is $1235 – about 15 per cent less than NSW, an analysis reveals. Nursing unit managers earning up to $1800 a week are 12 per cent worse off.
March 23, 2016
The proprietor of Menarock Age Services who is always busying himself with sanctimonious defences of both his organisation and the care sector, once again finds himself in a staff tribunal. This time his ‘holier than thou’ outfit is facing a s.372 (disputes) application lodged by a staff member (McLaughlin) in the Fair Work Commission.
March 23, 2016
Supported Options in Lifestyle and Access Services Ltd is facing a s.394 unfair dismissal claim from an ex-employee (Hansen) in Brisbane.
March 22, 2016
The Community and Public Sector Union and the Commonwealth of Australia represented by the Department of Human Services are duelling over a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Vice President Catanzariti in conference room 2 in Canberra.
March 22, 2016
The Community Accommodation and Respite Agency Inc is facing a pair of s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) claims lodged by the wilderness pair (Apolosi and Winkles).
March 22, 2016
Health Services Union and Yooralla are bogged down in a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Melbourne.
March 22, 2016
Queensland’s health minister has rejected suggestions Labor’s close relationship to unions are to blame for its poor performance in Brisbane’s local government election.
