Mental health is not just an issue for teenagers and adults it is an issue for many children as early as preschool. According to a national survey, one in seven children between four and seventeen has had a mental health issue in the last year, …
Wednesday, 18 July 2018 IEUA NSW/ACT Branch awarded the 2018 ACTU Congress Campaign of the Year for its battle for fairness in Catholic schools. Teachers and support staff in Catholic schools showed great determination, keeping up an 18-month resistance to Catholic employers across NSW and …
A recent study by Harvard University has found a link between decreasing unionisation rates and workplace fatalities and demonstrates that the “protective effect of unions on workplace safety at the micro level translates into large scale reductions in occupational fatalities”. The study by Michael Zoorob …
We hope you never need it but if you do…. Recently we hosted an information session at the IEU (SA) office with representatives from NGS and TAL, Australia’s leading life insurance specialist. TAL in partnership with NGS are specialists administering life insurance, income protection insurance …
When settling industrial matters without a formal arbitrated outcome, the parties will often agree on some terms and conditions to settle the matter. Those terms and conditions are usually reduced to writing in a legally binding “Deed of Settlement” which, when drafted by the employer’s …
The IEUA is a proud ongoing sponsor of this Apheda program in Timor Leste. This project continues to increase the capacity of rural Timorese women and men to establish and actively participate in rural farming networks at the community and district level. In addition, the …
The Independent Education Union of Australia (IEUA) is disappointed that the Federal Education Minister has again chosen to overlook teachers and their unions by again failing to put expert educators from the teacher unions on the Board of AITSL. It is unequivocally clear that the …
Precarious vs Ongoing Employment When an employer talks of flexibility, it usually means that the employees have to forgo normal work codification and adopt unsustainable and uncomfortably contorted positions. The employer claims at an AIS bargaining table to increase the length of “temporary” employment from …
On 26 March 2018 the Fair Work Commission handed down its decision on the ACTU’s application to seek to have Modern Awards varied to include an entitlement to part time work or reduced hours for employees with caring or parenting responsibilities. The claim was essentially …
Did you know that just as each school Consultative Committee is required to meet once a term so too is the Catholic Enterprise Consultative Committee (ECC)? This central committee comprised of representatives from both the Employer and the Union. During the life of an Enterprise …
