Following revelations that the ACT Government’s major outsourcing project (Total Facilities Management) is unaffordable, unions are calling on the government to consider insourcing services, including direct employment. The “asset management” […]
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Unions in Canberra today welcome the start of stakeholder consultations for the Secure Local Jobs Package, said UnionsACT. The package was a key election commitment made in 2016 to ensure the ACT Government only procured goods and services from safe, ethical companies. The proposed package will ensure that companies contracting with the ACT Government must […]
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The Fair Work Ombudsman today has confirmed that lawbreaking by employers in the ACT is widespread, with 40 percent of audited businesses failing to meet their workplace legal obligations after a second warning. The Ombudsman conducted an audit of ACT businesses over two rounds earlier in 2017. After failing the first round, forty percent of
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UnionsACT has today called for workers and employers to increase their vigilance about working in heat as the ACT faces the start of heat-wave season. The union peak body also calls on Worksafe to increase inspections of industries at high risk of extremely hot working conditions, including construction, aged care and hospitality. Hot weather is
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UnionsACT has today called for the smart meter roll-out in the ACT to be halted and reviewed. The new smart meter policy became operational on 1 December 2017. The policy effectively privatises the installation of electricity meters, and will see the substantial increase of electricity prices for consumers. The program opens the installation of meters
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The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation ACT Branch has today announced that long-standing branch secretary Jenny Miragaya will retire effective 1 December 2017. The following quotes are attributable to Alex White, secretary of UnionsACT: “The UnionsACT Executive has acknowledged and thanked Jenny Miragaya, the retiring secretary of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation ACT Branch,
A new report released yesterday by UNSW and UTS academics Laurie Berg and Bassina Farbenblum confirm that wage-theft against migrant workers and international students is widespread in Canberra. The report, Wage Theft in Australia: Findings of the National Temporary Migrant Work Survey, is one of the largest of its kind and found: Thirty percent of
The new proposed fatality compensation is manifestly inadequate given that the ACT remains the second most dangerous state in Australia. The ACT Government tabled a Bill last week to increase the workplace death compensation to be equivalent to Comcare compensation ($528,433), still amongst the lowest in Australia. Three workers have died in the ACT in
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The most recent comparative safety report by Safe Work Australia confirms that the ACT is again the second least safe jurisdiction in Australia to work. Rates of serious injury in the ACT during the most recent reporting period are at 3.5 serious claims per 1000 employees, compared to the Australian average of 2.8 serious claims. […]
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