The State Government will decide within months whether to seek to enforce provisions that allow for forced redundancies of public servants deemed surplus to requirements.
Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis has caved to pressure on his 1.5 per cent pay cap for public servants, offering pay rises higher than the cap to more than 30,000 government workers, InDaily can reveal.
The public sector union is advising Lands Titles Office staff not to sign “inferior” working contracts offered by its “mysterious” new private operator, and is threatening to take the State Government to court, InDaily can reveal.
The Weatherill Government is exploring a legal mechanism to allow workers’ compensation exemptions for frontline workers not covered by enterprise bargaining agreements, as it seeks to wind back contentious provisions of its Return To Work regime for all “first responders”.