ADHC Update your details

ADHC update your details - May 2017 (PDF version) Disability privatisation Update your details, make the switch and protect your union membership today! Have you moved house? Changed work location or job classification? Are you still paying by payroll deduction? Make sure you and your union are protected now, and into the future, with whatever organisation you are with. It’s easy just log in, update…

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FACS CST update

FACS - CST update - 5 May 2017 (PDF Version) CST Staff still in the dark over private employment The Public Service Association has written to the Department of Family and Community Services to confirm a follow-up meeting with agency in relation to mooted changes to private employment arrangements for clinical services staff. These changes would cause some staff to choose between their FACS job…

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Haste and poor care plans under NDIS a ticking social time bomb says union

PSA Media release: Critical care plans under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) are poor and in such disarray, a peak body, National Disability Services have felt the need to release a report titled “How to get the NDIS on track,” says the Public Service Association (PSA). “This report and the reasons behind its release goes to the heart of the PSA’s concern in NSW…

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There is a lot happening in ADHC

There is a lot happening in ADHC - April 2017 (PDF version) The PSA understands this is a very difficult and disruptive time for all ADHC staff members. There is a lot of change and it is most unsettling. A number of PSA delegates are regularly attending meetings with FACS management to raise issues and concerns. If you would like any issues raised in these…

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Experts back union concerns over NSW Government wiping its hands of disability services

PSA Media release: The Public Service Association (PSA) has attacked the NSW Government for scrapping public disability services, throwing the care of people with disability into free fall. The union’s long held position was today backed by concerns of the NSW Mental Health Commission that there will only be funding for approximately a quarter of existing mental health services under the NDIS. This follows last…

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