The ANMF is seeking pay rises of up to 35% for an estimated 250,000 nurses, nursing assistants and midwives as part of a work value claim intended to build on the wins of the related aged care case and extend the "recognition" to other healthcare settings.
Australian Federal Police Association members have endorsed taking 36 types of protected industrial action - including indefinite or periodic bans on attending Federal politicians' functions or events that do not carry a "significant" threat rating or higher - in pursuit of pay rises that break the shackles of the Albanese Government's 11.2% over three years public sector pay deal.
An accused murderer has won extra time to pursue an unfair dismissal case against the ATO, claiming it constructively dismissed him when his wife used her power of attorney to tender his resignation while he was incarcerated and suspended from work.
The NSW Police Force has failed to knock out orders to compensate an officer who suffered a psychological injury after it transferred him and banned him from talking to female colleagues without supervision while it investigated s-xual harassment complaints.
Media host and writer Antoinette Lattouf has failed to have the ABC's jurisdictional objections to her unlawful dismissal case referred directly to a FWC full bench, despite arguing that she will appeal an unfavourable finding and that she "anticipates" that the broadcaster will do the same.
Queensland's departing police commissioner failed to properly consider the human rights implications of two ultimately unlawful vaccination mandates issued at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Supreme Court review has found.
Lawyers for media host and writer Antoinette Lattouf have taken her high-profile departure from the ABC to the Federal Court, alleging she was unlawfully sacked in breach of the ABC's enterprise agreement.
The Queensland IRC has refused a bid by Together Queensland to anonymise or remove a worker's name from her ex-husband's unfair dismissal decision, which refers to her application for an order under the State Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act.
Federal Police officers might impose protected bans on accompanying low-risk politicians at airports and attending low-security MPs' and senators' functions, if a protected action ballot that closes early next month wins approval.
A judge has found the Bureau of Meteorology's chief executive unlawfully "managed" a senior employee on more than $200,000 out of her job, while observing in passing that the APS's use of individual flexibility agreements to bump up pay packets is "a game of smoke and mirrors" that limits public servants' redeployment options.
