Industrial Relations

• George Lekakis

Bankwest staff are set to vote on another revised pay offer from the company’s management following a protracted round of enterprise negotiations over the last 12 months. read more

• George Lekakis

Reignition of inflationary expectations throughout the Australian economy is about to complicate and possibly derail enterprise negotiations between the Finance Sector Union and several banks in the n.. read more

• Ian Rogers

NAB staff are working many unpaid hours and “persistent and consistently high workload levels have been normalised by management fiat,” the industry union alleges. read more

• George Lekakis

Bargaining talks are set to recommence between Bankwest and the Finance Sector Union for a new enterprise agreement, with the union continuing to agitate for pay rises well above 3 per cent over the n.. read more

• George Lekakis

Westpac yesterday confirmed that it will slash the number of staff employed in its financial crime and fraud prevention areas - a move that has put it on a collision course with the Finance Sector Uni.. read more

• John Kavanagh

NAB and the Finance Sector Union are at loggerheads over the scope of the bank’s payroll review, which is remediating widespread underpayment, and the issue looks like being determined in court. read more

• George Lekakis

ANZ has promised to redeploy around fifty staff affected by its latest round of branch closures across the country. read more

• Ian Rogers

Commonwealth Bank will force a ballot of all employees over a proposed (and long delayed) Enterprise Agreement that the Finance Sector Union labels a “con-job”. read more

• George Lekakis

The "Better big bank" is a lesser bank when it comes to meeting the market on pay. read more

• George Lekakis

National Australia Bank is facing a major industrial showdown with the Finance Sector Union over plans to slash customer service staff currently employed across the national branch network. read more

• Banking Day staff

As CBA prepared in July for the sale of its insurance arm, CommInsure, it discovered a potential privacy breach that may have given bank staff access to customers' sensitive medical data. read more

• Banking Day staff

There has been "little sign of widespread financial distress" among those who have had their interest periods expire and have started making principal repayments, the RBA said on Friday. read more

• Banking Day staff

The Finance Sector Union has asked the Federal Court to rule that a global currency exchange company is covered by the banking, finance and insurance award, claiming the financial services shifted to.. read more

• Banking Day staff

Banks are "yet to determine" the industry's "longer term position on reporting of employee survey results," Ian McPhee wrote in his seventh "independent governance expert report" for the Australi.. read more

• Banking Day staff

People's Choice Credit Union has named Kate Henley as its new chief marketing officer. read more

• George Lekakis

Western Australia is emerging as the next political battlefront for the banking sector as Commonwealth Bank steps up a new drive to slash costs across its national operations. read more

• Ian Rogers

More than three per cent of NAB's staff were sanctioned for misconduct last year, CEO Andrew Thorburn told a parliamentary hearing on Friday.In all, the bank found 1138 staff breached the company's ow.. read more

• Ian Rogers

The FSU may have thwarted plans to get rid of all paid breaks at NAB Servicing. read more

• Banking Day staff

ING is under fire for a plan to cut 7,000 jobs in Europe and invest instead in online banking services, and Thomson Reuters reports the Asia Pacific syndicated loan market continued to shrink over the.. read more

• John Kavanagh

A New South Wales Supreme Court judge has raised questions about Westpac's delay in dealing with a claim by former St George Bank employees and its failure to attend to its obligations. read more