Bulletin: Office of the Sheriff

SHO JCC update On Thursday, 27 June 2020, your Sheriff’s Officers Vocational Branch Advisory Group (SOVBAG) and PSA industrial staff met with Sheriff Hall and her management team by audio visual link, for the second Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) meeting of 2020 (July JCC). JCCs are held every quarter and is the peak consultative forum between SHO management and the PSA and SOVBAG and where…

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Prison Bed Capacity Adjustment Program

Following the PBCAP announcement on Monday, 20 July 2020, a teleconference was held today with the SEAG State Executive to discuss the impact and also the lack of consultation with the SEAG members. The PSA has written to the Commissioner seeking that there is an urgent meeting arranged with the SEAG members to discuss the impact to roles, the lack of prior consultation and also…

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PSA lodges IRC dispute with EPA

On Monday, 20 July, the CEO of EPA called a meeting with your union, the PSA. The purpose of the meeting was to begin consultation regarding the upcoming transfer of programs, grants, and the container deposit scheme from EES back to the EPA. Following this meeting, communication was provided to EPA staff by the CEO, who announced certain staff will be transferred from EES to…

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Prison Bed Capacity Adjustment Program

As you are aware, there was a meeting called on Monday, 20 July at HDB to announce the impact of the Prison Bed Capacity Adjustment Program (PBCAP). In attendance were your COVB State Executive and COVB delegates from Long Bay, Dawn de Loas, Mary Wade and Silverwater Women’s. What was identified under PBCAP is there will be further impacts to the ranks of the COVB.…

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Centennial Park meeting notice

Minister for Planning and Public Spaces Rob Stokes recently announced a 50 Year Vision for Sydney’s open space and parklands. The PSA attended a meeting on 16 July, where Acting Deputy Secretary of Place & Infrastructure Brett Whitworth and other members of senior management provided little detail other than the creation of Greater Sydney Parklands (GSP), which aims to bring together the Centennial, Callan and…

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