PSA Advocacy Pays Off with Extra Community Corrections Funding

Following years of consistent advocacy and campaigning around workload concerns and understaffing in Community Corrections, the PSA welcomes the recent announcement that the government has allocated approximately $33m in additional funding for your important work. It is unfortunate that it has taken so long for those concerns to finally be heard by the government as the funding for over 140 new ongoing roles has been…

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State Parliament December Joint Consultative Committee Update

The State Parliament Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) was held on Friday December 4 2020. The JCC was attended by PSA Industrial Staff, PSA Delegates and management representatives. The JCC was a trial format, broken up into matters impacting all staff, matters impacting DPS PSA members, and matters impacting MoPS PSA Members. This allows strong representation for both areas of staff, while allowing focus on shared…

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It’s not too late to register for TODAY’s super webinar

If you’re one of the almost 65 per cent of women we surveyed who said they have never been to an information session about super, this webinar is for you. Join us for ‘Women and Super 101 with Aware Super at 12 noon today for 30 minutes. Aware will have someone to answer all your questions during the webinar. Time: 12 noon (30 minutes) Date:…

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Update: proposed amendments to Landcom Award

The PSA met with management on 2 December 2020 to discuss proposed alterations to the Landcom Award. The meeting was dealing with high-level theoretical constructs, and was constructive and informative. Based on members’ approval, the PSA provided in-principle agreement with a few proposed administrative arrangements. These include reviewing the Award to include gender-neutral terms, and a thorough review of numbering to use decimalisation clause numbers…

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PSA wins reinstatement of Senior Community Corrections Officer offers – update

Following a letter sent by the PSA to CSNSW in October, as well as ongoing advocacy over the last few weeks, CSNSW has agreed to reverse their decision on the withdrawal of the Senior Community Corrections Officer (SCCO) offers. The details of the issue are outlined in a previous bulletin HERE. Furthermore, for the sake of equity, those from the relevant classes who did not…

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