TfNSW and RMS wage offer and award negotiations

Both the TfNSW and RMS Awards are set to expire the middle of this year. Negotiations for your Award are set to commence imminently. Earlier this year we sought your input to as to what you wanted to see in your Award. This was set to inform the PSA’s negotiations with TfNSW. At the time TfNSW had not provided the PSA with an indication of…

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Department of Customer Service: Consultative Committee update

Your union and Delegates recently attended the Joint Consultative Committee to discuss member concerns with the Secretary. The following matters were discussed. Recruitment Recruitment is currently occurring across the cluster to improve workload and customer delivery. Secretary Emma Hogan advised the People Matter Survey and recent Town Hall discussions had highlighted Recruitment as a focus area. The Department acknowledged there is more to do in…

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Guidelines for Non-Custodial employees during a natural disaster or industrial dispute

Over the past few years, Correctional Officers have sometimes made the reluctant decision to take strike action. This has been done to bring about change on matters such as inadequate handling of inmate violence and the devastating impact Benchmarking has had on staffing levels and prison safety. When this happens, inmates are locked down and supervised by a skeleton team of Commissioned Correctional Officers. It…

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PSA gains concessions: Australian Museum restructure update

Last week, the PSA provided your feedback to the Australian Museum regarding the restructure. On Friday 21 May 2021, the PSA met with museum representatives and gained valuable concessions. In the below table, you can read a summary of the Australian Museum’s concessions in response to the PSA feedback. PSA feedback Australian Museum concession Timeframe   The allocated timeframe for consultation was insufficient to allow…

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Trustee & Guardian: Financial Management team reception duties

The PSA understands that there was a temporary arrangement of six weeks over the past Christmas holiday period whereby members of the Financial Management (FM) team at Parramatta would assist on Level 1 with reception. This is taking significant time away from client matters allocated. The PSA understands customer service officers are expected to sit downstairs from 9:00am to 1:00pm until another officer arrives for…

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