The Australian Red Cross Blood Service has a new education resource to teach the correct method for checking a blood component pack before transfusion. Created by the National Medical Education Unit at the Blood Service, Pack Check is suitable for nurses and students, either to teach or reinforce good transfusion practice. Correct patient identification remains […]
Since taking office in March 2011, Barry O’Farrell and his Government have made a number of cuts to funding, jobs, workers’ rights and services. Here is an overview of what the workers of NSW have endured thus far. Attacks on Workers’ Rights Taken Control of IRC and Frozen Wages – The Government passed the Industrial […]
The New South Wales Health Minister has directed the state’s health department to make more than $3 billion in savings. [ABC News] Jillian Skinner has confirmed local health districts will be required to find $775 million dollars in staff savings under a “labour expense cap”. A further $2.2 billion will be cut from the health […]
Almost a decade after asbestos was banned in this country, an overwhelming majority of Australians are concerned it remains a major health risk and want Federal government action to remove it from all homes and public buildings within two decades, according to a new poll. Two-thirds of respondents to a poll commissioned by the ACTU […]
This leaflet summerises in basic terms the differences between the previous and new workers’ compensationn systems, encourages injured workers to share their stories about the impact of the changes as well as encourages workers to join their union and local union community group. Workers compensation leaflet
Dads will no longer have to justify asking for time off work when their new baby arrives, thanks to new laws that ensure they have the right to access paid parental leave, say unions. ACTU Secretary Dave Oliver said unions had campaigned for paid parental leave for both parents for more than 30 years. “Unions […]
The national Nursing and Midwifery Board is consulting on options for refining international criminal history checks used to assess applications for registration as a health practitioner in Australia. Under the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme, National Boards set registration standards that every registered practitioner must meet. One of these standards relates to criminal history. The […]
The action of the peak global employer group in preventing the International Labor Organisation’s annual conference from discussing violations against Fijian and other workers is an outrage, say Australian unions. ACTU President Ged Kearney said the conference in Geneva was this week set to hear from Fiji union leaders about the military regime’s restrictions on […]
Every three years unionists from around Australia, representing workers from every industry, every sector, representing men, women, migrants, Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander peoples come together and we debate what matters to working people, their families, and their communities. Tuesday, 15 May 2012 Sydney Convention Centre I would like to welcome all of you here […]
More stark evidence of the break down in aged care regulation Waratah Village to reclassify beds as low care to avoid employing RNs. Waratah Village management has told Fair Work Australia that it will reclassify its high care beds as low care beds, despite the residents still being high care, to apparently avoid having to […]
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