School support staff and prison officers are among more than 80,000 New South Wales (NSW) public sector workers in line for an immediate four percent pay rise. The state’s wages umpire signed off on the government’s deal with the Public Service Association for the pay bump and a 0.5 percent increase in superannuation. Public sector…

The Commonwealth Public Service Union (CPSU) says the federal government should reinstate the Commonwealth Employment Services (CES) and put an end to the outsourcing of employment to recruitment agencies. The CES existed prior to 1998, when the Coalition government, under Prime Minister John Howard, privatised the bureau to a large number of community-based providers to “ensure good…

The UK Department of Health announced increased salaries for NHS staff on Thursday, following months of negotiations between unions and the government. Under the new rules, health care professionals and staff will receive a 5 percent consolidated increase in pay, backdated to April. This includes eligible employees on the Agenda for Change contract (AfC), which…

The Australian public service union has rejected the federal government’s pay rise offer, labelling it as “not good enough!” The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) voted overwhelmingly to reject the offer, with 86 percent of the 15,000 members who voted in the ballot choosing to turn down the government’s first offer. They had called…

The federal government has offered Commonwealth public servants a 10.5 percent pay rise over the next three years following negotiations. This is the largest pay rise to be offered to Australian Public Service (APS) employees in more than 10 years and will see public servants get a four percent rise in the first year, 3.5 percent in the…

Employers are still offering decent salaries to attract new recruits, but the slowing pace of growth in advertised pay provides further evidence of a cooling jobs market. Advertised salaries as measured by employment marketplace Seek climbed 4.4 percent in the year to January. While strong, the result was slightly below the 4.6 percent growth recorded in…

A star-rating system for Australia’s aged care facilities is expected to be in place by the end of the year, the federal minister for the portfolio says. It is part of the government’s push to ensure more transparency and accountability in the sector following the findings of the aged care royal commission. The system will…

Employment Minister Stuart Robert has refused to say whether he thinks minimum wage should increase in line with inflation, as he criticised Labor for “chasing some artificial number.” It comes as new polling by RedBridge for the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) reveals almost 80 percent of people would be more likely to vote…

By John Boitnott In my time working for and writing about startups, I’ve observed that people who deserve a raise the most are often the least likely to ask for one. It seems like every organization has that one workhorse who completes large numbers of tasks but who doesn’t seem to know their own worth. Sometimes…