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Judicial Associates Award

  9 April 2024

Complete the short survey on our updated application for a new Associates Award.

As mentioned in the PSA’s previous bulletins, the É«ÀÇÉçÇøis pursuing two claims against the Department in respect of judicial associates:

1. The Historical Claim: the É«ÀÇÉçÇøis asserting that the Crown Employees (Public Service Conditions of Employment) Reviewed Award 2009 (the Conditions Award) and the Crown Employees (Administrative and Clerical Officers – Salaries) Award (the Salaries Award) apply to associates and have applied since associates have been engaged as public servants.
2. The Prospective Claim: the É«ÀÇÉçÇøis pursuing the creation of an award specifically for associates, to be known as the Crown Employees (Associates) Award (Associates Award) which will apply prospectively and will apply along with the Conditions Award and Salaries Award.

The É«ÀÇÉçÇøprovides the following update in respect of these two claims.

The Historical Claim

The É«ÀÇÉçÇøand the Department have been in negotiations to resolve the historical claim since October 2023. The É«ÀÇÉçÇøis confident that an in-principle agreement will be reached in the coming weeks which will then be put to a vote of membership.

Only members will have a say on this agreement, so please encourage your colleagues to join today. We encourage you to forward this bulletin to a colleague, who can read more about joining here.

The Prospective Claim

Due to the Department’s failure to substantively respond to the PSA’s log of claims (which was provided on 18 October 2023, and which was based on membership feedback provided on 29 September 2023), the É«ÀÇÉçÇøhas decided to commence further proceedings under s 10 of the Industrial Relations Act 1996 (NSW) to have IRC create the Associates Award.

The É«ÀÇÉçÇøhas prepared a draft application which is based upon the log of claims. There is one remaining issue which the É«ÀÇÉçÇøwants membership’s opinion on before the É«ÀÇÉçÇøcommences proceedings. We encourage all members to complete the survey to have a say on this remaining issue.