Tuesday 1 November 2016
World Economic Forum "Global Gender Gap Report 2016" - Australia
Friday 30 September 2016
Queensland Government being sued to finally return other people's money
Wednesday 24 August 2016
Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service and Minister for Employment, Liberal Senator Michaelia Cash, is learning the hard way that Australians expect the boss to act fairly
Tuesday 19 January 2016
So what's happening with the Fair Work Commission's penalty rate review?
Tuesday 5 January 2016
How will Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources Barnaby Joyce & Nationals MP Kevin Hogan handle local opposition to Turnbull Government's move to lower penalty rates?
Friday 6 March 2015
Mr. Eleventy puts his foot in it again
Thursday 6 March 2014
Abbott to introduce serfdom to Australia
Unfortunately little of this information is reaching Northern Rivers readers of APN News & Media newspapers, as the two main mast heads are running what are essentially reworked versions of government media releases without any evaluation of their contents.
Tuesday 10 September 2013
Equal pay is still a dream for most Australian women
Sunday 2 September 2012
Today is Equal Pay Day in Australia
Australian Government:
ABS statistics released in August 2012 show that across Australia, women's average full-time weekly earnings are now 17.5% less than men's earnings
The Age September 2, 2012:
Equal Pay Day is today - the 64th day of the financial year. It is held on the day women catch up to men's earnings of the previous year. This year, it took women 64 days, while in the previous two years it was 63.
Monday 30 July 2012
Women, Work & $$$$$ in NSW
In 2010, women made up 57 percent of NSW undergraduate students (117,382 in total). Men made up 43 percent (88,954) of undergraduate students. Some 28,400 more NSW women than men commenced an undergraduate higher education course in 2010, a 14 percentage point gap in women’s favour.
Tuesday 15 November 2011
NSW North Coast community workers closer to equal pay
Wednesday 24 November 2010
In the real world of gender inequality in Australia 2010
It would appear that in the real word of unequal wages based on gender in a country where women on average earn around 82-84 cents for every dollar earned by men (often when doing identical work) and its first female prime minister is ambivalent on the issue, it literally pays for women to collectively bargain in the workplace.
This week the Federal Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations released its report AGREEMENT MAKING IN AUSTRALIA UNDER THE WORKPLACE RELATIONS ACT: 2007 TO 2009 which stated in part:
A total of 24 156 collective agreements were approved under the WR Act between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2009. This was a 14.7 per cent increase from the 21 057 collective agreements approved in the previous three year reporting period.
Twenty-nine per cent of employees had their pay set by a federally registered collective agreement during the reporting period. This was a slight increase from the 28.5 per cent of employees who had their pay set by a collective agreement during the previous reporting period.
Employees whose pay was set by a collective agreement earned, on average, more than those whose pay was set by an individual agreement.
The average hourly ordinary time earnings of non-managerial employees on federally registered collective agreements was $29.00 in August 2008, compared with $28.60 for employees whose pay was set by a federally registered individual agreement.
For female employees, the difference was slightly larger, with $27.10 under collective agreements compared with $26.00 under individual agreements.
At the same time the department also released TRENDS IN FEDERAL ENTERPRISE BARGAINING JUNE QUARTER, 2010.
Friday 19 November 2010
Public servants still doing better than other cogs in the Great Oz Wheel
If your fate is to be one of those anonymous grey workers wending a tired way to work five days out of every seven in one of the sprawling metropolises, then it really does pay to be a public servant according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics – around an average $127 more each week in fact or $130 in seasonally adjusted figures. Bet there are nicer bickies in the tearoom too!
Friday 27 August 2010
In the middle of the federal election campaign all pollies got a pay rise
At the same time Oz pollies were inflicting an atrocious election campaign on a helpless national electorate they were quietly anticipating a backdated pay rise:
Remuneration Tribunal Statement - 2010 Review of Remuneration for Holders of Public Office (72kb) RTF (528kb)
Remuneration Tribunal Statement - 2010 Travelling Allowance Rates for Public Office Holders and Parliamentarians (32kb) RTF (376kb)
Members of Parliament - Travelling Allowance (96kb) RTF (976kb)
According to The Herald-Sun this means that the prime ministerial position is currently worth $14,000 more starting from 1 August.
No wonder Abbott is hot for the job - with his level of personal debt being prime minister would be a god send.
The public service is of course included in this pay rise and moola reports for the grand poobahs are found here:
Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Full-Time Public Office (120kb) RTF (1.15mb)
Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Part-Time Public Office (144kb) RTF (2.18kb)
Thursday 21 May 2009
Pollies and top public servants feel the pain (at least for another four months)
This week the Remuneration Tribunal announced it has deferred its annual pay review for federal politicians and government agency heads.
Before everyone goes "Oh, that's a shame!" remember that the Chair of the Australian Communications and Media Authority - which is never happier than when it is censoring the Internet - is still comfortably off on an annual salary package of $408,560 ("Mr Christopher Chapman will receive a personal loading .... while he occupies the office") as well as getting Tier 1 travel.
Christopher Robin was until January 2006 a director of Babcock & Brown Investor Services Limited.
ACMA's Deputy Chair gets $296,260 and an Member gets $272,690, with the same travel allowance.
Of course they are not among the highest salaries paid from government coffers as the Chair of APRA comes in at a cool $603,130 each year, with a specified superannuation loading.