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The Public Service Association (PSA) has slammed the $10 million rise in the budget for consultants in one public sector agency alone while the Government cuts jobs and argues against a 2.5% pay rise for disability care workers.

“The Treasurer can defend the expenditure on the basis the Government is undertaking “unprecedented and complicated reforms” but what he doesn’t say is that process involves the wholesale sell off of public services in NSW such as the Land Titles Registry, disability and Out of Home Care,” said Acting ɫ������General Secretary, Troy Wright.

“The savage irony is that many of these Departments are spending money on consultants to manage the after-effects of employees being replaced with consultants”.

Read the full media release HERE.

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In January 2017, the ɫ������commenced the process of securing the next salary rise for members covered by these awards.

In February, after discussions at Central Council, we submitted a formal request to the Government for a 2.5% salary increase each year for the next two years.

As you know, 2.5% is all we are legally allowed to seek without trading off conditions.

The Government responded with a one year offer of 2.5%.

At the Industrial Relations Commission on Wednesday 17 May 2017, the matter was conciliated before Chief Commissioner Kite.

At that hearing, the Government failed to move from its one year offer.

Following discussions at the Commission, the Government have however undertaken to consider their position over the coming week.

Another conciliation conference is set down for Monday 29 May at 11am.

The ɫ������is determined to do everything it can to provide members with certainty and security around their family budgets through a multi-year pay agreement with the Government.

At the PSA’s Annual Conference next week I will be providing an update on the status of the pay case and seek feedback from Conference delegates.

I look forward to seeing many of you at Conference.

Troy Wright
Assistant General Secretary

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Critical care plans under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) are poor and in such disarray, a peak body, National Disability Services have felt the need to release a report titled “How to get the NDIS on track,” says the Public Service Association (PSA).

“This report and the reasons behind its release goes to the heart of the PSA’s concern in NSW about the capacity of the NDIS to handle the full range of disability services provided by Ageing Disability and Home Care once ADHC has been removed from the picture,” said ɫ������Assistant General Secretary, Troy Wright.

“The fact a peak body, National Disability Services have felt compelled to issue to a report with 24 recommendations literally about getting the scheme back on the rails before it has been implemented should be of enormous concern to hundreds of thousands of families”.

“The NSW Government has been framing the NDIS as a some miracle cure, an all things to everyone service provider but with strict eligibility provisions buried in the fine print as many families are slowly discovering.”

“This union’s huge concern is that the NSW Government is tearing down a long standing expert public service and transferring it to private interests, washing its hands of any duty of care, while the evidence continues to mount that the NDIS has serious issues in relation to capacity, funding and care plans.”

“NSW will be the only state in Australia with no Government safety net for people with disability and now one of the peak disability bodies has officially raised serious concerns about its roll out.”

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You can read that letter HERE.

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“It’s a short-list of one, which is no short-list.” ɫ������Assistant General Secretary Troy Wright told the Newcastle Herald.

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That was until the ɫ������called him out. Fraser told local media essentially that the efficiency of Housing NSW in his area made it attractive for privatisation.

You can read ɫ������Assistant General Secretary Troy Wright’s letter in response HERE.

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