PSA pressures Transport for NSW to take action on workloads and flex time

You may remember a recent PSA bulletin informing you your union was attempting to meet with Transport for NSW (TfNSW) to discuss the current and emerging workload issues in Transport Shared Services (TSS). If you happened to miss that bulletin, you can read it HERE. With your delegates, the PSA met with TfNSW on 25 November to canvas the apparent workload issues and the consequences…

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Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions: Workload dispute update, extension of Workload Management Tool pilot, feedback and more

During a Joint Consultative Committee with the PSA on 24 November 2021, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) informed your union that the pilot of the Workload Management Tool (WMT) had been extended until the end of the year due to the impact of COVID-19. Providing feedback on the pilot While the ODPP’s Workload Measure Pilot Survey for feedback on the WMT…

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PSA Win - Camping allowance for base camps!

As many members may know, in October 2019, the PSA commenced proceedings in the IRC to fight for the payment of your entitlement to a camping allowance to all RFS employees when camping in RFS base camps. The RFS strongly opposed these proceedings, claiming that RFS employees were not "required to camp" when staying in a Base Camp and therefore not entitled to the allowance.…

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EPA BULLETIN

Members, you would be aware that EPA throughout the COVID lockdown has applied the COVID Plan as developed by DPIE. However, the PSA  was disappointed to learn the EPA has now decided in light of the mandatory return to work date and vaccination dates, the DPIE model no longer fits. You might ask why and the answer as given to the PSA is that you…

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YJNSW December 2021 Bulletin

End of the year message from your Youth Justice Delegates On 17 November your Youth Justice Delegates held its last Departmental Committee meeting of the year at PSA House, followed by Joint Consultative Committee meeting on the 18 November 2021. The YJNSW Departmental Committee meet quarterly to raise and advocate on favourable resolutions on workplace issues effecting members and YJ staff. DC delegates are elected…

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