During a Joint Consultative Committee with the PSA on 24 November 2021, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) informed your union that the pilot of the Workload Management Tool (WMT) had been extended until the end of the year due to the impact of COVID-19.

Providing feedback on the pilot

While the ODPP’s Workload Measure Pilot Survey for feedback on the WMT has now closed, we strongly encourage members to email their feedback on the pilot and their workloads to the ODPP’s feedback email address .

The ODPP anticipates the pilot analysis will conclude at the end of January 2022 and the PSA expects to receive a copy of the feedback from the review of the WMT pilot soon after this time.

On 25 November 2021, the ODPP provided the PSA with “mid-pilot feedback” on the WMT. To summarise, the feedback mainly related to inaccurate and inappropriate multipliers and weightings and high optimum practice sizes.

NSW Industrial Relations Commission

As previously advised, the PSA is currently in dispute with the ODPP over the implementation of the WMT and unsafe workloads at the ODPP. The dispute is listed back in the NSW Industrial Relations Commission for mention on 1 February 2022. In the interim, the ODPP has undertaken not to implement the WMT prior to 31 January 2022.

Summons of Documents

The ODPP is still resisting providing the PSA with documents in relation to workloads of solicitors over the past two years. The parties will be submitting evidence on a Notice of Motion for a Summons to Produce and the matter is expected to be listed for hearing in mid-February 2022.