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Court fines aged care hostel for FOA breach

In a ruling of national importance to the aged care industry, the Federal Court has today fined an aged care facility $3,200 for breaching freedom of association laws and made it clear nursing homes and hostels can't lawfully insist that unqualified care workers administer medications to clients.

Aged care report "seriously flawed": NSWNA

The NSWNA has slammed a report on Australia's residential aged care workforce as unreliable, while the HSUA has given it qualified praise for recognising the chronic staff shortages in the sector.

Della refuses to back secure employment test case

In a blow to the NSW Labor Council's Secure Employment Test Case, State IR Minister John Della Bosca will oppose the NSW IRC amending all State awards to limit the use of casuals, labour hire employees and contractors.


ACTU alarmed over denial of severance pay

The ACTU says the Howard Government's plan to legislate away the new rights to severance pay for employees of small businesses is a wrong-headed, kneejerk reaction. (Please note: This is a re-send of an article uploaded last night.)

ACTU alarmed over axing of severance pay

The ACTU says the Howard Government's plan to legislate away the new rights to severance pay for employees of small businesses is a wrong-headed, kneejerk reaction.

Commission orders contractors to pay striking workers

In an important decision on strike pay, the NSW IRC has ordered contractors on a Sydney hospital refurbishment site to pay wages to workers who walked off the job in 2001 over concerns about lead contamination - despite their industrial action breaching the project award's dispute resolution provisions.


Work/life balance UK style - a snapshot

It might be a barbecue stopper in Australia, but in the UK the work/life balance has been the source of a lot of action as well as talk, with a UK academic describing the pace of change there as "dizzying" since the Blair Government came to power.