In a report released by the Queensland Government today, former PM Bob Hawke has rejected radical options for reforming mechanisms for setting wages and conditions for Queensland public sector employees.
The Government's heavily rewritten registered organisations legislation could pass within weeks, after Labor made it clear yesterday it would support the changes with minor amendments.
Queensland health unions have endorsed a new enterprise agreement with Q-Health that provides a base pay rise of 11.8% over three years plus access to accreditation bonuses for more than 32,000 public health workers.
CPSU leader Wendy Caird will step down this Friday, after accepting a job in France with the international peak public sector union body, Public Services International.
The University of NSW has included a novel $3,000-a-year bonus to meet the high cost of living in Sydney as part of its new wages offer to academics, claiming it is the first provision of its kind.
Queensland's police union has secured a commitment from the State Government to provide a restructured wage system and pay rise of 3.5%-a-year, but the parties remain at loggerheads over new legislation that the union says will strip its members' rights.
A full bench of the SA IRC will decide whether bargaining fees are barred from State enterprise agreements, after a senior Commission member said he had "serious doubts" about their legality.
