Decisions by date

April 2008

Crown Lands, Nowra workloads dispute

Southern Cross University General Staff Classifications

Permanency for ‘Schools as Community Centres’ Facilitators

UNE dispute over Student Centre Restructure

DCS Community Offender Services award application

Commerce flexible working hours ballot

Upgrade of Parliament House Security Unit

S19 Review: Crown Employees (Department Of Commerce) Award

DCS new Program Facilitator positions

NSW Fire Brigade flexi forfeitures

Workcover bullying survey

Macquarie University Centre for Flexible Learning

RTA salaries offer of 15th April

Workcover breaches of the Listening Devices Act

Aboriginal Education Assistants (AEA) name change

DET Employee Performance & Conduct Unit Dual Grading Dispute

ODPP resourcing and workloads

UTS Anti Bullying Campaign

Teachers Aide name change

March 2008

Draft Greyhound & Harness Racing Regulatory Authority Award 2006

RTA Flexible Working Hours

DADHC Restructure of Accommodation Services

Court Officers’ Position Descriptions

Unions NSW’s “Women’s Rights at Work Conference”

Tourism, Arts, Sport & Recreation Program Officers Award

Schools: ERN – Enrolment and Registration Number System

UWS Bullying Campaign Outcomes

Workplace Relations Amendment (Transition to Forward With Fairness) 2008 Bill

Planning/Heritage Office Awards and Flexible Work Arrangements

PSA Public Sector Salaries Case

Education & Training: Dual Grading in EPAC

PSI Sub Regional Advisory Committee (SUBRAC) Women’s Committee Meeting

Dignity & Respect Charter signed – covers DET, schools, TAFE

UNSW superannuation underpayments

Juvenile Justice “Over Numbers” of Detainees

Aboriginal Education Assistants -- Name Change

DADHC Case Management Reform Implementation

DET: Pecuniary Interests Documentation

Commerce Flexible Working Hours Agreement

Schools: Regional SASS Reference Groups Funding

Department of Commerce Membership Recruitment

RTA Inspectors Vehicle Regulation – New Award

Variation to DADHC Community Living and Residential Award

National Employment Standards Exposure Draft & Modern Awards

Aboriginal Education Assistants’ Pay Increments

Crown Lands Workloads

February 2008

CPSU lobbies Gillard to rid of HEWRRs

Western Sydney TAFE Class Support Review

Future of proposed CDEP related employment

Power Privatisation: Stop the Sell-off Campaign

Professional Learning for General Assistants

DADHC Community Support Teams Restructure

Credit Card Trial in Schools

Tourism, Arts, Sport & Recreation – Program Officers Award

Crown Lands - Workload

DADHC Community Living Award

Western Sydney TAFE – Library Statements of Duty

Restructure of Community Offender Services (Probation & Parole)

First Aid In Schools

PSA Rule changes

Support for the STOP THE SELL-OFF campaign

January 2008

Pre-School accreditation

Displaced Officers and Promotional Appeals

SMARTBUY in Schools

PSA Annual Conference date and venue

Commerce: Flexible Working Hours Agreements

Crown Lands restructure

Salary sacrifice at Local Government

Coal Services P/L 146A Agreement

Drug & Alcohol policy at Energy Australia

Restructure of Community Offender Services (Probation & Parole)

December 2007

DET/TAFE DC – Electricity Privatisation

University Enterprise Bargaining – Round 5 Debrief

Public Service Training Wage Award updated

Matthew Low honoured

DET/TAFE DC condemns rises to TAFE student fees

COVB to be eligible for legal fund

State Wage Case

Section 19 Award Reviews (2nd Round 2007)

Delta Electricity dispute over Contractor Entry Protocol

Schools Departmental Committee amendment of representation

Proposed Bill to amend the Public Sector Employment & Management Act

DET/TAFE Christmas Closedown

Donation to New Theatre refurbishments

Julia Gillard congratulated

Notice of motion re proposed rule changes

November 2007

Role of General Assistants in school site management

Declining number of first aid volunteers in schools

New award for members of Lord Howe Island Protection Board

New awards for Environment & Climate Change

Department of Water & Energy issues

DECC Personal Protective Equipment and Radio Network

Meeting between PSA representatives and the Minister for Roads

Commerce dispute over Flexible Working Hours Agreements

Teachers Aides (Special) Review

New award expected soon at Planning

Public sector salaries claim underway

September 2007

North Coast Institute of TAFE - Library & Information Services restructure

Macquarie University - National Centre for English Language Teaching and Researc

PSA’s Your Rights @ Work Campaign

Assaults at DADHC Group Home

University of New England - Library Restructure

Department of Environment and Climate Change matters

Southern Cross University - “CPSU – It Pays to Belong” recruitment campaign

Assault at a Wagga Wagga school

August 2007

MVRIA & Mechanical Inspectors

Certificate IV in Government – School Support Services

Use of Skillhire (agency staff)

Section 19 Award Reviews

CSU Arbitration

Pandemic Influenza Memorandum of Understanding

National Trade Measurement

Follow up of resigned & new members in Unis & TAFE

Teachers Aides’ conditions of employment talks

TAFE – monitoring of job advertisements

Outcomes of COCQG Review of Recruitment Practices

TAFE 4% campaign

DADHC members gain $20,000

OHS -- Current Prosecutions

Asbestos

Transfer of 130 corporate shared services staff from the DNR to Commerce

NSW Shared Services Strategy

National Personal Property Securities Project

Health Professionals Registration Board

Workcover Psychological Injury Conference - Preventing psychological injury

Government Chief Information Office

RTA Business Reform - Human Resources Review

July 2007

Keep Health Professionals Registration Board staff in NSW employment

Vale Annette Wheeler

Cross Border Trades & Labour Council

Dignity and Respect Charter – DET asked to sign

Teachers Aides conditions of employment talks

Probation & Parole and the Home Detention Scheme

Emergency Management Guidelines for schools & other DET places

Central Council votes for another YR@W Day of Action

June 2007

Permanency for General Assistants in Schools

PSA reaffirms its opposition to privatisation of electricity industry

Displaced persons & redundancies

Review of the Public Service Conditions of Employment Award 2006

PSA Delegates to the new Cross Border TLC

Accommodation at Government Offices - Buronga

Creation of Department of Environment & Climate Change and the Abolition of the

Congratulations to members at Wollongbar Agriculture Institute

State Wage Case 2007

“Approval of study Time” in Personnel handbook

April 2007

Disability Services Legal Fund

TAFE Class Support Campaign Group

Name change for Teachers Aides

TAFE and DET Temporaries Campaign Group

Dispute with RTA re motor vehicle particulate air monitoring & road survey field

Review of Personnel Handbook, Chapters 9 & 10

School student enrolment and registration number system

RTA’s Newcastle Call Centre

Small Schools’ Finance Centres

How Workchoices works in the universities

March 2007

“Fitness to Continue Guidelines” and Healthquest

Training and development for school staff

State Emergency Services -- Interim Working Conditions for Business Managers

Launch of “Safe Manual Handling – Smart Move”

HACS – Health & Community Services Industry Reference Group

Unions NSW Annual Safety Delegates Conference

Comcare – the next attack on working people

PSA Scholarships

Crown Employees (Public Service Training Wage) Award 2005

OHS Act Review

ACTU/Unions NSW “Union Summer” program

February 2007

Ethical investments

Permanency for more General Assistants in Schools

NSW Public Sector Industry Training Advisory Body (ITAB)

Salary Sacrificing for SSS members

Proposed Amalgamation with the ESPOA

Child Employment – No Net Detriment Principles

Vocational Training for NSW Public Sector Agencies

Amendments to Education Act

Department of Lands, Bathurst, Your Rights at Work Committee

Crown Employees (Public Sector – Salaries 2007) Award

University of New South Wales matters

Salary packaging for General Assistants and School Administrative & Support Staf

Conversion of School Support Officer positions

Macquarie Your Rights @ Work Committee

December 2006

Superannuation

Permanency for General Assistants in Schools

Relocation of Western Sydney RTA staff to Parramatta

Maternity Leave for Schools Staff

Creation of State Property Authority

RTA Flexible Working Hours Agreement

Office Of Fair Trading: Cost Effective Compliance Review

OFT: Superannuation Contributions

Schools’ Complaint Policy

Sydney University AWAs

Southern Cross University redundancies and takeovers

School staff training allowance

Delegates to Wagga Wagga TLC

School Support Officer Positions

November 2006

University of Sydney AWA campaign

PSA/CPSU opens new office at UNE

Independent Review Panel for School Administrative & Support Staff

Common Selection Criteria for School Jobs

Dignity & Respect: Guidelines on Preventing & Workplace Bullying

Legislative changes to deal with Violent Students

Group Home labour hire tender

600 jobs targeted to go at University of NSW

Restructure at University of New England

CPSU National Higher Education Conference

October 2006

UNSW Job Cuts

Parliament House budget cuts

Briefing by RTA CEO to PSA Representatives

TAFE Illawarra Institute Class & Campus Support Review

Schools - Designation of Positions for Aboriginal People

University enterprise bargaining round ends

AGD Flexible Working Hours (FWH) Dispute

Pushing Down Take-Home Pay – Implications for Pensions

General Assistants in Schools -- Duty Statements

TAFE North Coast Institute restructure

University of Sydney “Tear Up Your AWA” Campaign

Skilling Australia’s Workforce -- PSA’s IEA Campaign in TAFE

Relocation of RTA Staff to Parramatta

August 2006

DET -- Aboriginal Community Liaison Officers

Schools Recognition Week

NSW Fire Brigade -- BSIT Restructure

UNSW – General Staff Enterprise Agreement 2006 – 2009

Cross Border Trades & Labour Council, Albury/Wodonga

State Emergency Service Call Centre Award

Increases in Allowances in the Public Service Conditions Award

RTA employment levels 1995 -2007

DEC Memorandum of Understanding on Award Negotiations

DET Performance Management Scheme for Public Service & TAFE Administrative Staff

Department of Aboriginal Affairs (DAA) -- Aboriginal Employment

Salary Packaging and Salary Sacrifice to Superannuation

Schools -- Staffing Operations Procedures

July 2006

NSW Parliament – Tooheys Bans

Office of Fair Trading - Home Building Services

Schools’ Maternity Leave Policy

Unions in July Project – NSW Lotteries

Parliament House services -- budget cuts

State Wage Case 2006

Schools -- Diploma in Business (Frontline Management)

Rural Lands Protection Board - PSMEA Amendment 2006

Parliament – cuts to food & beverage services

June 2006

Aboriginal Education Assistants matters

Dispute – Monitoring of Motor Vehicle Emissions

Rural Lands Protection Board matters

2005 NSW Workforce Profile – Highlights from the Report

Ageing Disability & Home Care -- Increased Funding Announced

Training funds for School Administrative & Support Staff

Equivalent Full-Time Employment (EFT) Trends -- from the NSW Budget Estimates 20

Settlement of dispute over filling of School Support Officer positions

Working with Children Check

Education Legislation Amendment (Staff) Act 2006

Payment of Higher Duties Allowances to prison officers

May 2006

University of Newcastle: General Staff Workplace Agreement 2006

April 2006

Rural Lands Protection Board restructure of Hunter operations

DET Review of Departmental Contact Centres

PILLAR (Superannuation Administration Corporation): Workchoices and an Award

Award variation at WSN Environmental Solutions (formerly Waste Service)

Crown Lands NSW Restructure

Dispute over Appointment of School Support Officers

RTA Motor Registry Closures

DET Asset Management and the Finance & Administration Directorates restructures

Universities: HEWRR Compliant Enterprise Bargaining

Right of Entry under Howard’s Workplace Relations Act

State Water: Workchoices & an Enterprise Agreement

NSW Food Authority -- Motor Vehicle Signage

Proposed Voluntary Redundancies at Tourism, Sport & Recreation

“Public Sector Notices” – Introduction of Electronic Distribution

March 2006

Police Corporate Services Efficiency Review (CSER) -- aka Job Cuts

Flexi Hours at Energy, Utilities And Sustainability

RTA Motor Registry Closures

DET Matters

Crown Lands NSW – Restructure

Police Conditions of Employment & Salaries Award

PSA Undergraduates scholarships for 2006

State Water Enterprise Agreement

Skilling Australia’s Workforce Agreement

University of Newcastle EA – election of staff reps

University of Sydney Enterprise Agreement

Secure Employment Test Case

February 2006

Review and Redraft of the Personnel Handbook

Aboriginal Education Assistants meet

Restructuring as a panacea for organisational efficiency

December 2005

Schools: Grade 1 positions, extra staff & enrolment forms bans.

Transgrid 2006 Award

Eraring Energy 2006 Award

Failure to monitor motor vehicle particulates

University of Sydney: Transfer of Orange Campus to Charles Sturt University

Pension Indexation & Social Justice Indicators

3rd Australasian Organising Conference

Delta Electricity matters

Sydney Race Riots

RTA Staff Reductions

Public Sector Employees’ Superannuation Committee meeting with PEO

Child Protection Allegations Against PSA Members in Schools

PSA & political parties

PPPs, Workchoices & privatised jobs

Macquarie Generation matters

November 2005

Central Council Review Committee – Members

University Delegates Development Program

University of Sydney – security outsourcing

PEO Guidelines and Reviews, 14 November

Award Claim for Psychologists, 14 November 2005

Police OHS prosecution

PSA’s Submission to COCQG Review of Recruitment

UTS matters

International Day of Action on Climate Change

UWS – University’s sustainability agenda

NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) Matters

Workplace Relations Amendment (WorkChoices) Bill 2005

Corrective Services Welfare Officers – Parklea & MRRC changes

Probation & Parole wages & conditions

University of Newcastle – Administrative Review and Restructure

October 2005

Commerce: Restructures without Policies

Reducing Costs in the RTA – More Spin

RTA Business Reform

Signing of TAFE Funding Agreement

RTA Departmental Committee

Commerce:- Career Transition

Ombudsman’s Outlandish Avowal of Accountability Overruled

Split of Department of Infrastructure Planning & Natural Resources (DIPNR)

Environment and Conservation Award Negotiations

September 2005

Regional office co-locations and locations

COCQG Review of Recruitment Practices in the NSW Public Sector

Superannuation indexation of benefits

RTA Crash Lab, Huntingwood

State Government opposition to Howard’s industrial relations plans

TAFE Conditions of Employment Award

School Enrolment Forms

RTA School Crossing Supervisors Award

West Gosford Heavy Vehicle Inspection

NSW Workplace Safety Summit, Orange 2005

Review of Conditions of Employment Award & other reviews

Public Service Training Wage Award

RTA Business Reform Review

Skilling Australia’s Workforce Act

PSA Women’s Conference

Retirement Intentions Survey

Establishment of School Support Officer positions

August 2005

Age Profiles of the PSA, NSW Public Sector, & NSW Workforce Compared

Sheriff’s Officers – Use of Private Security at Courthouses

Workers Radio Sydney 88.9 FM

Review Of Public Service Recruitment Practices

Retirement Intentions Survey

July 2005

Schools -- Permanency for Long Term Temporary SAS Staff

2004 NSW Public Sector Workforce Profile

Delta Electricity package accepted

TAFE Conditions of Employment Award

School Support Officer Positions

New England Institute of TAFE

Commerce – spokesperson invited

Retirement Intentions Survey

Move of TAFE Staff to Public Sector Employment & Management Act (PSEMA)

June 2005

Psychologists Award Claim

Skilling Australia’s Workforce Bill

Crown Employees (Public Sector – Salaries 2004) Award

Dignity & Respect in the Workplace Charter – Signatures

Clerical Officer Review

February 2005

Tsunami Appeal

Automation of job Matching System

Federal Law – Right Of Entry

Electrolux Decision – Update

Universities Bargaining Updates

AGD: Asbestos Treatment Program in Goodsell Building

NSW Public Sector ITAB

Commerce Pay Dispute

TAFE & DET Matters

Annual Conference Constituencies

Teachers Aides (Special) & General Assistants In Schools – Various Issues

Parking & Security Issues At UWS

Review Of “Conduct & Performance” And “Staff Mobility” Guidelines

Department Of Education And Training -- Local Holiday

Schools Award

NSW Lotteries Corporation pay case

No Forced Redundancies