Non-Custodial End of Year Update and feedback from your Departmental Committee

As we approach the end of 2024 and move into the 126 year of the Public Service Association, we thank our members and delegates for their hard work and dedication and provide the following update. Work Flexibility (Custodial settings) – Including working from home and flexible work hours. Successful trials of work from home have been undertaken during 2023, where it has been demonstrated that…

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Consultation on Department of Communities and Justice Flex Agreement

The PSA has been provided with a Draft Flexible Working Hours Agreement 2024 for consultation and seeks your feedback. Please see the document HERE The PSA and Delegates will be meeting with DCJ in the new year to discuss the draft flex agreement. This document is intended to consolidate flex time arrangements due to historical machinery of government changes. While there is no implementation date…

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Consultation and implementation: Where, When & How I Work Policy

Last week the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) finalised the updated Where, When & How I work Policy as a part of the implementation of Premier’s Circular C2024-03 NSW Government Sector workplace presence. The PSA still harbours concerns that the policy will decrease the efficiency and effectiveness of the organisation, but this is NSW Government and all staff have a contract of…

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NSW Department of Creative Industries, Tourism, Hospitality and Sport

Your union has been meeting with NSW Department of Creative Industries, Tourism, Hospitality and Sport (DCITHS) to discuss the final Flexible Work Policy.  PSA members raised a number of concerns in meeting of members and through direct feedback during the consultation period. Members are concerned about the proposal to return to the office for the majority of their working week.  The Policy defines this as…

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Child Protection in Crisis Campaign Continues

Child Protection Award – Off and Running One element of the settlement of this year’s salaries case for all NSW public sector workers was the side agreement that your Union and DCJ would negotiate, for the first time ever, a specific Award for Child Protection employees. Awards are neither what they sound like nor necessarily exciting business.  What we hope to gain from this process…

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