Issue No 10 | 23 April 1999 | |
NewsSTOP PRESS: Employers Bid to Scrap ANZAC Day Fails. For Now
An attempt by the NSW Employers Federation to use a technicality to block access to Monday's Anzac Day holiday for thousand of workers has failed.
The Full Bench of the NSW Industrial Relations Commission this afternoon agreed to a joint position by the Employers and the NSW Labor Council to declare Monday a public holiday for all state award employees. They agreed the state would have been plunged into chaos if a change to arrangements had been occurred at this late stage. The Federation had earlier sought to have Sunday declared the public holiday, arguing the NSW Government had not formally proclaimed Monday under the Bank and Bank Holidays Act. Instead the Government believed that this had been unnecessary, claiming it was custom and practise that the holiday automatically moved to the Monday. The Federation has reserved its right to argue that the ANZAC Day holiday should always be celebrated on the day itself in future years.
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Interview: Latham: Leading With The Chin Labor's heretical voice talks about trade unions and how they'll survive in the land of the Third Way. Unions: Nursing the Numbers Active members are the key to recruitment for one of the state's strongest unions, the NSW Nurses Association. We talk to some of the star recruiters. History: A Sense of Community Historian Greg Patmore looks at labour-community coalitions in the Lithgow Valley between 1900 and 1932. International: Labor Council Official to Dili Front Line Labor Council�s Chris Christodoulou will be one of the first foreign unionists to head to East Timor in the leadup to independence. Review: When Billy Met Lindsay What happens when a British political popster meets with an Australian political thinker? Legal: CyberPorn in the Workplace A new protocol in the NSW public service is setting the benchmark for acceptable use of the internet.
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