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News and events just for you
The latest five Borders news bulletins and events are below. You will find the rest of your news and events on the individual sector information pages below.
Termination and Redundancy – Know Your Rights - 27 June 2008 As you will be aware, many of your colleagues are currently subject to processes for termination of their employment with the ACC. Based upon budget estimations, it can be reasonably anticipated this will be an ongoing process over ensuing months and years.
DIAC - 457 Visa processing changes, what are your rights? - 25 June 2008 DIAC are centralising the processing of 457 visas to Sydney, Melbourne and Perth – with major impacts on staff in those sites and the other sites that used to do this work.
Customs clings to “Unders and Overs” - 25 June 2008 Customs has just released the findings of its internal “Unders and Overs Review”, set up after the completion of your agreement to take another look at one of the biggest issues from last year’s campaign.
Customs clings to “Unders and Overs”- 24 June 2008 Customs has just released the findings of its internal “Unders and Overs Review”, set up after the completion of your agreement to take another look at one of the biggest issues from last year’s campaign. The decision of the review has been to redefine the term “roster cycle” to mean a period of up to 12 months – effectively allowing current practices to continue.
Customs House relocation - 20 June 2008 You may be aware that since 5 June, Customs has been relocating staff from Customs House and Allara House, across the road to 2CA and will continue to do so over the next few months. During this move the CPSU has been contacted by a number of Customs members with concerns about some problems that have been identified at the new building.
Critical Incident Service Australia's national security environment has changed. Officers now face greater risks and increased public and political scrutiny.