Rural Fire Service – Survey for Award variation and update for members

The PSA informed the Industrial Relations Commission (‘IRC’) on 16 March 2018 that PSA and RFS met on 12 March and RFS expressed their interest in reviewing the entire Award.

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Labour Hire issue in Maitland Revenue NSW

There has been a palpable frustration within Fees and Fines owing to the Management decision to allocate work dealing with the backlog statutory declarations, to labour hire workers (AKA “contingent labour” or “contract workers” or “agency staff”).

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Gosford relocations – Redeployment and/or retaining: still options

When PSA Maitland members walked off the job last July in protest against the Government’s decision to forcefully relocate over 40 Revenue NSW (RNSW) jobs from Maitland to Gosford, we were supported wholeheartedly by Maitland MP Jenny Aitchison.

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NPWS - SFS3 role update - April 2018

NPWS - SFS3 role update - April 2018 (PDF version) As per our last update to members, the PSA had notified OEH of a dispute regarding their plan to restrict recruitment to new SFS 3 roles to be limited in the first instance to SFS, FS and SFO staff only. Despite the PSA informing OEH in November 2017 of our view that the Government Sector…

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PSA seeks your feedback on inappropriate use of contract labour in your units

Sadly, in today’s society we see that it is ordinary and predictable that employers want less union involvement in the workplace. It unfetters their ability to exploit workers based on economic insecurity.

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