Staff Reporter, Thursday, 8th December 2011 -
The Victoria Government has told a Fair Work Australia hearing on equal pay for community sector workers that FWA cannot make an order that will give SACS workers more than the public…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 24th November 2011 - Angela Pollard, is the manager of the Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre and a longtime community sector worker. This piece was first published on November 17 2011 in the Northern…
Staff Reporter, Monday, 14th November 2011 -
The Coalition has refused to back the Gillard Government’s proposed pay increase for community sector workers, with senior Opposition frontbenchers criticising the Prime…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 10th November 2011 -
Australia's peak community and social services body ACOSS has welcomed the agreement between the ASU and the Australian Government in the Equal Pay Case saying community sector…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 10th November 2011 -
Governments around the country now need to consult with and work alongside the community sector in partnership through the implementation process of the Gillard Government’s…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 10th November 2011 -
UnitingCare Australia has welcomed the Gillard Government’s commitment to fund its share of the increase in community services wages which are subject to the pay equity case…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 10th November 2011 -
The Gillard Government has announced an historic agreement on equal pay for Australia’s Community workers.
Some tens of thousands of community sector workers are expected…
Staff Reporter, Friday, 24th June 2011 -
Australia’s informal, unpaid or non-professional modes of care work should not be forgotten in the current equal pay claim for community workers.
The call comes in a new public…
Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 22nd June 2011 -
The reluctance by the Gillard Government to negotiate with unions on a pay rise for community sector workers could end up costing the government more, Greens MP Adam Bandt has warned…
Staff Reporter, Friday, 29th April 2011 -
In another blow for the social and community sector workers equal wage case, the newly elected NSW Government has backed away from supporting an equal remuneration order, saying…
Staff Reporter, Friday, 29th April 2011 -
The membership of the new national consultative group, established to examine how to manage the implications of the historic equal pay test case, has been announced.
Parliamentary…