Community Corrections and Non Custodial: Are you entitled to an Environmental Allowance?

A number of members have recently contacted the PSA with concerns that their claims for the Environmental Allowance (EA) had not been progressed by Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW), despite meeting all the requirements. The PSA has been successful in gaining the EA, including back pay, in a number of these cases. Could you be eligible? In 2019, CSNSW undertook a review of positions entitled to…

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Evolving Transport recruitment and impacted employees: PSA lodges dispute in the Industrial Relations Commission

The PSA and TfNSW have been in dispute about the placement strategy being implemented for Evolving Transport. You can refer to our previous bulletin HERE for details. The PSA, other unions and TfNSW met to try reach an agreement on the placement strategy. We sought for TfNSW to: adhere to the Agency Change Management Guidelines and Priority assess affected employees at the expanded recruitment stage…

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PSA wins overtime meal allowance

As a result of concerns raised by members in relation to non-payment of meal allowances to staff who had worked overtime, the PSA met with the Department Customer Service to pursue the matter. Management claimed there was an issue with the way entitlements had been set up in GovConnect. However, we insisted that in fact clauses 93 and 94 of the Crown Employees (Public Service…

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SPC Restructure: PSA takes Department of Communities and Justice to the Industrial Relations Commission

The PSA has escalated action around the drastic cuts and changes being proposed through the Strategy, Policy and Commissioning (SPC) restructure.  The Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) has announced the SPC restructure will result in 175 ongoing roles as well as further temporary roles being cut from an area that has seen successive cuts through restructures over a number of years. You can read…

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Election of POVB State Executive

The ballots for the POVB State Executive closed on Sunday, 28 February 2021.  The following people were elected: Chair – Nicole Jess Vice Chair – Jason Charlton Country Vice Chair (2 positions): Darren King and Joshua Hamade Overseer Vice Chair – Clint Lamb Secretary – Natalie Howes Assistant Secretary – Mark Hutchinson On behalf of the returning officer, I wanted to thank all candidates for…

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