NEWS-HR

Top bureaucrats at the giant Department of Human Services have gone missing from its negotiating team as the 35,000 public servants who work there prepare for another vote on a wage proposal. Union delegates have been left scratching their heads at the bewildering turnover in the senior management executives who have come and gone from the department’s bargaining team during the course of the lengthy wage dispute. A ballot will start on Friday with the department’s public servants to have their say on a new wage offer after the last “better than nothing” proposal was crushed in a landslide 83 per cent “no” vote in October.

The Fair Work Commission has ratified the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn CatholicCare Canberra & Goulburn Enterprise Agreement (CatholicCare Canberra & Goulburn) 2015-2017.

The Fair Work Commission has rubber-stamped the UnitingCare Community Transport and Distribution Enterprise Agreement 2015

The Fair Work Commission has ratified the Department of Health Enterprise Agreement 2016-2019

The Fair Work Commission has given its imprimatur to the Boandik Lodge Inc Nursing Employees & ANMF Enterprise Agreement 2016

The Fair Work Commission has reviewed a s.185 (enterprise agreement) application by Southern Cross Care (WA) Inc T/A Southern Cross Care and ratified the Southern Cross Care (WA) Inc Mental Health Services Bargaining Agreement 2015.

Ms Elizabeth Heaney has failed in her unfair dismissal claim against the Ocean Reef Medical Centre. Ocean Reef objected to Ms Heaney’s application on the basis that it was a small business and Ms Heaney had not served the minimum employment period. The Fair Work Commission agreed with her employer.

The Fair Work Commission has finally agreed to approve the Back in Motion Health Group Cooroy Enterprise Agreement 2015.