NEW HPDOCA Agreement: In-principle agreement reached

Together has given in-principle agreement to a significantly improved offer for your new HPDO3 agreement. We would like to congratulate members on winning such a strong outcome in your new EB!

To email the Health Minister about the timing of the $1250 pro-rata payment, go here.

The final agreed deal contains a vast number of improvements to your conditions that were won by Together members. A small sample of these include:

• 2.5% pay increase + $1250 payment* (*Note government has decided that for all agreements this is AO8.4 equivalent level - we continue to advocate in relation to this cut-off, we understand that this is very disappointing for many higher level HP and DO members)
• No loss of conditions – including no loss of retention payments for radiochemists
• Rural and Remote support
• Improved workload management
• HP workforce planning (budgeting and non-clinical time)
• Improved employee access of flexible working arrangements
• Temporary to permanent conversion improvements
• Social Work / Psychology treatment space protections
• HP workspace protections
• Compassionate transfers
• A new Clinical Assistants stream, with improved pay rates, a better training allowance, now including a CA3-4 progression scheme which has come out of recent negotiations
• Improved Attraction and retention for Medical Physicists

In addition to the HPDOCA offer we were also sent this letter from the Director General for members who are in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health workforce.