Employment Minister Eric Abetz's own department looks next in line to take industrial action in the deadlocked public sector bargaining round - and it will include disrupting the information flow to his office.
The CPSU will ask members at the Department of Agriculture to endorse industrial action including more stringent screening of passengers and cargo at airports and bans on tasks associated with food exports and imports, under a protected ballot application to be lodged today.
The federal public sector's biggest department has made its workforce a new sub-inflation wages offer of 3.5% over three years, with a further 0.9% payable if executive employee numbers remain below a specified ratio.
A state government that lost confidence in its mining warden did not breach his employment contract when it removed him from office, nor did it contravene trade practices laws when it originally offered him the role, a court has ruled.
NSW power unions are pushing for a job security clause to cover thousands of workers at the state's two biggest "poles and wires" network businesses, which have been earmarked for privatisation if the Coalition is returned in March.
Department of Veterans' Affairs employees are set to vote on industrial action, as the federal public sector bargaining round remains deadlocked and the Prime Minister says it is "unlikely" any agency will pay more than the sub-inflation agreement for defence force personnel.
A Federal Court full bench has upheld a finding that the main retail award applies to delivery drivers employed by the online arm of supermarket giant Coles.
The Australian Football League is arguing that its 120 media employees are not operationally and organisationally distinct from the rest of its workforce, as it tries to defeat a push by the MEAA for a majority support determination.
