PSA meets with Fred Nile

PSA General Secretary Anne Gardiner, Glen Barlow from Corrective Services, Jane Howrylak from Trustee and Guardian and Schools delegate and CPSU/SPSF Branch President Mary Court at PSA House before meeting with Fred Nile on 9 August. The delegation sought support for the fight against the GSE Regulation that extinguishes the right of NSW public sector workers to redundancy or severance payments where privatisations occur.

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Update on Privatisation Regulation

Dear delegates, Staff in the PSA Organising Directorate have been telephoning a cross section of our members to speak about the Government Sector Employment Amendment (Transfers to Non-Government Sector) Regulation 2016. This Regulation was introduced by the Baird Government to deny redundancy and severance payments to employees who are affected by privatisation and offered so-called “comparable employment” in the private sector. The clear objective of…

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Public servants, not public serfs - The Sydney Morning Herald

Today’s Sydney Morning Herald has a page 2 story in response to a new regulation that extinguishes the right of NSW public sector workers to redundancy or severance payments in privatisations. Read The Sydney Morning Herald article HERE.

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To all members covered by the GSE Act

Dear members A Regulation under the Government Sector Employment Act (GSE) was passed on Friday, 17 June 2016. This Regulation was introduced without consultation or notice to any public sector union. It extinguishes the right of NSW public sector workers to be entitled to redundancy or severance payments where privatisations occur and so called “comparable employment” is available. You can view The Regulation HERE. (https://psa.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Regulation-link-1.pdf)…

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