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.
In a blow to the Cole Royal Commission's bid to bring construction industry stakeholders together this week to improve OHS, the CFMEU has decided not to attend.
The IRC has ruled that a bargaining period ends when the parties are ready to put an agreement to employees, regardless of whether the deal is voted up or not.
In a significant win for Macquarie Bank, two of its former Asia-based employees have lost a multi-million unfair contracts case they launched five years ago.