ACCC revealed as next front for APS industrial action Community & Social The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission could be the next agency to walk out over stalled pay talks as staff at the Fair Work Ombudsman voted up a strike ballot.
Premium Insights and analysis ‘Digital first’ has made the social services frontline a lot tougher and rougher: so where to now? October 16, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Community & Social Digital services can bring people together or divide them. When digital division by default occurs, it’s people on the counter who cop it.
Tax officers’ union goes direct to Gallagher to break APS pay impasse October 10, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Economy & Industry Former CPSU head Stephen Jones plays peacemaker as service-wide bargaining faces renewed scrutiny and pressure on the government intensifies.
Strike ballots approved across the APS as pay dispute escalates October 10, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Careers The APS wage dispute keeps moving, with the CPSU understood to have secured approval to run strike ballots at three more workplaces.
Centrelink braces for mass strike disruption, clients warned to avoid branches October 7, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Community & Social Services Australia has pleaded with Centrelink customers to delay visiting offices or phoning call centres as it braces for a full-day strike on Monday.
Tax goes sour on APS wage offer October 6, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Community & Social Australia’s revenue agency staff necessarily know what other people get paid, and what they should earn. Not happy Katy.
DEWR staff prepare to strike as APS pay row escalates October 5, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Careers The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) is the third agency in a week to be hit by a staff claim for authorisation to walk off the job.
DAFF staff apply to strike over APS pay October 4, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Economy & Industry Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) staff will be the latest public servants to walk off the job in disgust at the government’s low-ball wage offer.
Services Australia wage strikes could hit 29% of staff October 4, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Community & Social Pay negotiations are always about numbers. Some look pretty crappy. Services Australia staff will walk off the job, and there’s lots of them.
APSC admits nobody accepted, everybody rejected, ‘inadequate’ APS pay offer October 4, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Careers The rift over the APS pay divide deepens as concerns grow over increasingly slippery language describing workplace democracy.
Federal-wage cops vote to strike over APS pay October 3, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Community & Social More public service agencies are set to walk out as industrial dispute intensifies, with workplace-pay enforcers seeking protected action.
Services Australia chief Rebecca Skinner apologises to staff for robodebt September 8, 2023 By Anna Macdonald Community & Social The CEO extended her regrets to current and former staff in an internal message: ‘Robodebt is a heavy burden that many of you still carry’.
Centrelink payments timeliness and accuracy pinged by auditor-general September 4, 2023 By Anna Macdonald Community & Social An ANAO report has found issues with how the timeliness of welfare payments were reported by Services Australia.
Premium Case studies Services Australia employee told she might lose her job for speaking at robodebt royal commission August 31, 2023 By Anna Macdonald Community & Social Jeannie-Marie Blake says she was warned that giving evidence at the robodebt royal commission would adversely affect her career.
Premium Insights and analysis Productivity crunch time for APS pay rises August 28, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Australian Capital Territory The government’s new public service pay offer will drop within hours. But is a smaller, better-paid APS something CPSU members will go for?