NSW public sector employees whose work has been significantly changed by the 2000 Olympic Games have given the Carr Government a fortnight to respond to a claim for a $3 an hour loading during the event.
The CPSU is threatening a national campaign to rob Stellar Call Centres of Labor government contracts, after the union won NSW Labor Council support to push for such a change from the NSW Government and the ALP State Conference.
The NSW IRC is to hear the State Wage Case over two days from May 15, after the NSW Labor Council decided to seek a quick flow-on of the $15 federal safety net increase.
The ANZ bank has denied FSU allegations that it indirectly discriminated against women by targeting part-time employees when reducing working hours in its retail branch network.
The CPSU is flexing the considerable industrial muscle the looming GST-deadline has provided it to push for a better EA for tax employees, with the department's workers today voting in favour of implementing rolling bans from Tuesday on GST-related work.
The FSU has lodged a complaint with HREOC against the ANZ bank, claiming that a restructuring program designed to reduce part-time employees' hours indirectly discriminated against women.
Australian Tax Office workers are expected to vote this morning in favour of work bans on GST implementation as part of their ongoing bid to secure a better pay offer from the department.
In an important ruling for employers, Queensland's highest court has ruled that an employer who told a jobseeker he was too old hadn't discriminated against him, because the jobseeker had approached the employer "on spec" and there had been no job on offer.
