Following the PSA pursuing an arbitrated decision on salaries, the State Government has made an offer to PSA members to settle our claim for the 2024-25 financial year and the following two years.
This offer includes the two Federal Government-mandated 0.5 per cent increases to superannuation.
Click HERE for a video message on the pay offer from PSA General Secretary Stewart Little.
The salaries offer is as follows:
- 3 per cent 2024-2025 increase in salaries plus 0.5 per cent superannuation
- 3 per cent 2025-2026 increase in salaries plus 0.5 per cent superannuation
- 3 per cent 2026-2027 increase in salaries
This offer will be backdated to the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2024.
The offer includes a safeguard mechanism to protect wage-earners if the Sydney Consumer Price Index exceeds 3.5 per cent (March quarter) in the second or third year of the deal. If this is the case, there will be negotiations for a one-off, non-cumulative, cost-of-living allowance (COLA).
If the Sydney Consumer Price Index exceeds 4 per cent (March quarter) in the second or third year exceeds members will receive a $1,000 taxable, one-off, non-cumulative cost-of-living adjustment payment, plus superannuation.
In addition, there will be grade reclassifications as per the Mercer Report, which will require variations to the Sheriff’s Award, including the following changes:
- Uplifting the current grade scale of a Sheriff’s Officer from Grade 1/2 to Grade 3/4
- Uplifting the current grade scale of a Sergeant from Grade 3/4 to Grade 5/6
- Uplifting the current grade scale of an Inspector from Grade 5 to Grade 7
- Uplifting the current grade scale of a Chief Inspector from Grade 6 to Grade 8
- Uplifting the current grade scale of a Superintendent from Grade 7/8 under Crown Employees (Administrative and Clerical Officers – Salaries) Award 2007 (A&C Award) to Grade 9 of the Crown Employees (Sheriff’s Officers) Award 2009
- Uplifting the current grade scale of a Chief Superintendent from Grade 9/10 under the A&C Award to Grade 10 of the Crown Employees (Sheriff’s Officers) Award 2009.
The Government’s proposed changes to grading come after years of campaigning by your union, the PSA, culminating in the Undervalued Understaffed Underpaid campaign this year, which received considerable media attention statewide.
Managing Excess Employees
As part of the offer, the PSA will negotiate changes to the Managing Excess Employees (MEE) policy to bring it into line with the new Workforce Mobility Placement (WMP) policy implemented late last year.
The WMP policy has seen great improvements in the retention of public servants affected by workplace change. A review of the MEE is a positive step in restoring retention as the primary goal of managing excess employees.
The State Government has also identified several obsolete allowances it wishes to remove from the Crown Employees (Public Sector Conditions of Employment) Award. The PSA has agreed to this on the basis that anyone still currently receiving one of these allowances will continue to do so.
Have your say
The PSA is a member-based organisation, and therefore acceptance of this offer is up to you and your colleagues in the union. Please vote at the link below.
Click HERE to vote.
Voting closes at 4:00pm Monday 14 October 2024.
Voting is restricted to PSA members.
What happens next?
If PSA members vote YES to the offer, all Public Sector workers covered by the PSA Awards in our claim will receive the increases offered, including back pay to the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2024.
If PSA members vote NO to the offer, the PSA will continue to negotiate with the Government for a pay increase for Sheriff’s Officers.
For a copy of the Memorandum of Understanding, which is subject to endorsement, click HERE.