Health: 2022 Christmas Closedown

The PSA encourages all members to regularly take recreation leave for their own health and well-being. For non-frontline staff, the Christmas closedown will take place between Monday 26 December 2022 and Friday 6 January 2023 inclusive. Can I work during the closedown period? While the NSW Government encourages all ‘non-frontline’ areas to shut down over the Christmas-New Year period, you are not required to put…

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PSA member VOTE: Department of Education proposed Flexible Working Hours Agreement 2022

The current Department of Education Flexible Working Hours Agreement 2019 is due to expire on 16 December 2022, covering up to the end of the current settlement period to 27 January 2023. Your Delegates and PSA staff have been exchanging correspondence and meeting with the Department since the PSA requested early engagement over the agreement at our Joint Consultative Committee in late July 2022. We…

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Community Corrections Joint Consultative Committee meeting

The Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) meeting between the PSA and Community Corrections was held on 24 November 2022. Please find the following summary of what was discussed at the meeting Acting Assistant Commissioner’s update Restructure The biggest impact on Community Corrections will be in specialists and the strategic area. Members in these areas will report to the AC for strategy and policy or delivery performance…

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Restructure update: PSA meets with CSNSW regarding SAPOs and MOSPs

On 2 December 2022, the PSA met with CSNSW regarding the industrial implications of the restructure on SAPOs and MOSPs. The following agenda items were put to CSNSW by the PSA: Changes to MOSP role and what’s happening with the RSMs The PSA requested information regarding these roles. CSNSW advised that the RSMs are moving to the correctional practice unit and will undertake a similar…

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Proposed Rescission of KDWJ Award – Vote Open Now!

CSNSW has recently written to the PSA seeking our consent to rescind the Crown Employee (Correctional Officers, Department of Communities and Justice) Award for Kempsey, Dillwynia, Wellington and John Morony (KDWJ Award) and to transition affected staff to the following Awards relevant to their classification: Crown Employees (Correctional Officers, Department of Communities and Justice – Corrective Services NSW) Award Crown Employees (Senior Assistant Superintendents and…

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