Member action cuts export of ServiceFirst jobs

While jobs will be moved from the public sector to companies Infosys and Unisys, 70 percent of those will remain in the state, rather than being outsourced abroad. This is a direct result of the campaign against the offshore ousourcing. A new services delivery centre is planned for western Sydney. Whilst not the win we hoped for, keeping most of the jobs local will mean…

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PSA achieves major win for temporary employees

Dear members, On 17 October, I sent an email highlighting the PSA’s serious concerns about the impact of the GSE Act on temporary employees. Read 17 October email HERE. Today, in a major win for thousands of temporary employees in the public service, the Public Service Commissioner advised the PSA that amendments will be made to the Rules of the Government Sector Employment Act in…

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RMS Combined Award arrives

The consolidation of seven Roads and Maritime Service (RMS) industrial instruments into one award has been finalised, enshrining some important wins for members and bringing to an end two long years of negotiations. The Roads and Maritime Services Consolidated Salaried Award 2014 was successfully agreed upon by the PSA and other RMS salaried staff unions in June this year, with only the ‘no extra claims’…

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RMS member back on the road at Service NSW

A member from Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) has successfully secured a role at Service NSW, thanks to the PSA. The Industrial Relations Commission recommended that the member be permitted to sit a second job interview on the grounds that they had been unfairly disadvantaged during the recruitment process. The member had returned from overseas only one day before the interview took place and had…

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TAFE member wins back job in blow to forced redundancy

In rejecting TAFE’s arguments about the nature and scope of the reinstatement order, the Full Bench found that it is not necessary to specify a position to which an employee could have been redeployed, and that it is sufficient to identify ‘other work’ to which redeployment would be reasonable. In his concluding remarks, Justice Ross rejected TAFE’s argument that there was no job available: “In…

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