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Rostering Principles

Rostering Principles - November 2017 (PDF version) The Industrial Relations Commission (IRC), on 30 August 2017, agreed with the PSA/CPSU NSW and ordered the Community Living Award (CLA) to be varied to include the Rostering Principles. This means that any act in contravention of the Rostering Principles is a breach of the CLA. Members are advised to consult the Rostering Principles to clarify situations relating…

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Union meets with families over disability privatisation – NBN News

Families impacted by the privatisation of disability services are meeting in Newcastle tonight. A public forum is being hosted by unions, to allow residents in the Hunter to voice concerns. “So we’re hearing from our members and from the community that there is massive shortfalls in funding and emerging risks and gaps in service provision,” say Kylie McKelvie from the Public Service Association. The Public…

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Disability forum in Newcastle on Tuesday - The Newcastle Herald

Today’s community forum in Newcastle to develop a positive plan with the community for a public disability safety net has received some early attention from the Newcastle Herald. “We will work with people with disability, their advocates, families, workers, health professionals, academics and concerned community members and ask them what a public disability safety net should look like,” PSA Assistant General Secretary, Troy Wright told…

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Jail should not be the last resort for people with disability

PSA media release The incarceration of a 20-year-old Victorian man with autism and an intellectual disability who fell through the cracks of the NDIS serves a reminder there needs to be a government-run safety net for some of the state’s most vulnerable people, says the Public Service Association of NSW (PSA). “We have warned that without a properly funded, government-run safety net, some people with…

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Help us fight for a Disability Safety Net

Help us fight for a Disability Safety Net - November 2017 (PDF version) It is no secret that the state Government disrespects its own workers. They run them down, cut their jobs and reduce funding to vital public services. Over the last six years the O’Farrell, Baird and now Berejiklian Governments have relentlessly implemented their privatisation agenda. Perhaps the most horrific one of all has…

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