Public Sector Agreement Explainer: Leave Replacement
Under our public sector agreement a health service must replace staff for planned absences, that is leave for 2 or more weeks (whether that’s annual leave, parental leave, long service leave, professional development, study leave or Workcover-based absences); and for unplanned absences, that is when someone calls in sick or a position has become vacant as a result of a resignation or termination. For planned absences: When there are...
Public hospitals and private pathology providers
Recent reporting from the Australian Financial Review shows that Capital Crescent, the private equity firm that owns Australian Clinical Labs, is experiencing some big financial problems. And they aren’t the first private pathology company to experience financial problems. But what happens to the delivery of pathology in public hospitals when private pathology providers cut staff and services; or worse, go out of business? We’ve...
Looking ahead in 2018
If 2017 was a big year we expect 2018 to be an even bigger year. This year we will work hard to bed down our new Public Sector agreement and start putting into action the important new provisions that we secured together. (We’re still celebrating the outstanding result of the agreement ballot.) In particular we want to ensure that the provisions around backfilling leave are fully utilised and tested. These provisions were included...
Happy New Year 2018
Happy New Year to all of our members and supporters. We’re back for a huge 2018 on 8 January.
Public Sector EBA: Another Successful Vote
Despite the hiccup causing us to have to put our new agreement to a vote again, it has been overwhelmingly supported (again) with it being voted up with 98% voting YES! And despite the short time frame to lodge your vote we actually increased the number of people voting in the ballot. As we highlighted when it first came to light there was a technical problem in the Fair Work Commission with final approval for the agreement, we have...
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