Security officers have blocked MPs’ staff from campaigning for improved pay inside Parliament House, amid growing unrest in minister’s offices and the threat of a proposed enterprise bargaining deal being rejected.
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While the federal government attacks unions it is revealed that Turnbull’s Chief of Staff is paid over $600,000 per year – more than the PM himself, with the Government getting around its own 2% wages cap. Meanwhile, as USU General Secretary Graeme Kelly points out, staff members in electorate offices across the country who have gone without a pay rise for two years have started voting on a new enterprise agreement that limits annual wage increases to 2 per cent. The union is urging a NO vote.
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The number of federal government ministerial advisers has ballooned 65 per cent since last year, prompting union claims that the Coalition is trying to get around its own 2 per cent cap on public-sector wage rises.
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Business groups are lobbying Peter Dutton and the Coalition to slash the rights of Australian...
The Albanese government must step in and cover the staff entitlements of Rex workers who have been...
The CEO of a NSW council covering a large portion of the state’s south coast has resigned as...
