Laundry Allowance Back pay for GA’s

The PSA is pleased to announce you should commence receiving your uniform allowance from June 2023. In addition, you will receive back pay for the time the allowance was not paid in the past. In February 2023, the PSA wrote to the Department of Education (DoE) about its failure pay General Assistants their entitled Laundry Allowance. Your union also informed the Department that members are…

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Lunch is on the Department!

Your union has been involved in a protracted dispute with the Department in relation to travelling compensation and meal expenses. With the help of the Industrial Relations Commission (IRC), an agreement was struck to resolve the PSA Dispute with the Department of Customer Service (DCS) in relation to the interpretation and application of clauses 26 and 29 of the Crown Employees (Public Service Conditions of…

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KDWJ Award Rescinded

  On Thursday 12 January 2023, CSNSW and the PSA appeared in the Industrial Relations Commission as part of the consent application to rescind the Crown Employee (Correctional Officers, Department of Communities and Justice) Award for Kempsey, Dillwynia, Wellington and John Morony (KDWJ Award), and transition affected staff to the following Awards relevant to their classification: Crown Employees (Correctional Officers, Department of Communities and Justice…

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New SASS Award Made Locking in 19% - 35.85% Increases

On Friday 13 September the PSA’s legal team attended The NSW Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) to report the outcome of the vote and finalise the new Award. 98.75 per cent of PSA SAS Staff members voted to ACCEPT the pay equity package in a historic win for pay equity in NSW. Unusually, the Full Bench of the NSW IRC made the Award on the day…

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