Queensland Catholic school teachers are threatening to refuse overtime for a week from Monday over a pay claim.

CONVICTED criminal Ashley Wayne Reynolds has been ordered to pay $27,000 compensation to the 51-year-old woman he savagely attacked at her Newtown home in 2007.

A dispute over pay conditions at a Warwick abattoir has been resolved.

ATTEMPTS by some Toowoomba Regional Councillors to pull the wool over ratepayers’ eyes over their recent pay rise are scandalous.

MAYOR Peter Taylor and three councillors have voted in favour of the three per cent pay rise they told Toowoomba residents last year they would not support.

MARANOA councillors gifted themselves a 2.8 per cent pay rise last week at the council’s first general meeting for 2010.

Southern Queensland companies have been ordered to repay more than $100,000 in back pay to staff.

AS family legends go, the story of Air Vice-Marshal Donald Bennett is at the top of the list for extraordinary tales.

THE new Federal industrial award system came into force on January 1 and Lester Hamblin says both he and his workforce finally have certainty in their business.

The start of the New Year signals a pay rise for Queensland Members of Parliament.

A south-west Queensland council has rejected a 3 per cent pay rise because it says it would be inappropriate in the current climate.

TOOWOOMBA MPs Kerry Shine and Mike Horan defended their 3.1 per cent pay rise announced yesterday.

TOOWOOMBA MPs Mike Horan and Kerry Shine were today awarded a pay rise, announced by Premier Anna Bligh.

The Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) says a recommended pay increase for councillors should not force rates to rise.

The Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) says councillors will accept a pay rise recommended by the Remuneration Tribunal.

MAYOR Peter Taylor doesn’t want a pay rise and said a salary increase was “not warranted”.

MAYOR Peter Taylor doesn’t want a pay rise.

Queensland state school teachers have voted to accept a revised pay deal from the Government.

The Queensland Opposition says a new pay package for teachers should not cause a further Budget blow-out.

The Member for Toowoomba North, Kerry Shine, says he expects a food processing plant in Toowoomba to honour its commitment to pay full entitlements to its employees who were recently stood down.