At your enterprise bargaining meeting on Monday 14 September, management raised concerns that, due to current circumstances, they are unable to meet the financial obligations of what they had offered in March.

Last week your union launched a survey about Workloads across Public Trust Queensland. I wanted to write to say congratulations if you have completed the survey, there have been over 109 staff take action and complete the survey in just one week.

Your enterprise agreement expires on 30 September 2020. This means that the pay rise you received in October 2019 was the last increase that was scheduled. It is time to start bargaining for a replacement agreement to determine your pay and conditions of work.

We hope everyone is continuing to stay well.

Since our last update you will have seen that your Enterprise Bargaining Agreements are now all certified – this means they are all in effect! Well done to all delegates and members across the state who made this happen!! You can access a copy of your new agreements here:

Last week your union launched a survey about workloads and hours of work across DJAG. I wanted to write to say congratulations if you have completed the survey, there have been over 337 staff who have taken action and completed the survey in just one week!

In this update for Youth Justice members, we are writing regarding permanency for higher duties employees, the case for reclassifying Youth Justice roles, COVID and other workplace matters.

For many years, Together members have been raising the unfairness of permanent public servants acting for extended periods of time in higher duties roles without any of the conversion rights that apply to temporary employees in similar circumstances.

DDHHS management has provided a change proposal that will directly affect Volunteers and Interpreter Services. Particularly, if this proposal goes ahead, the manager of the Interpreter Services role will be realigned to report to Nursing Director Patient Flow, Toowoomba Hospital, under the portfolio of the Executive Director in Toowoomba Hospital. You can read more about the proposal here.

As you may be aware, management is proposing major changes that will be directly affecting administration officers in THHS. This change proposal aims to enhance the patient service experience and management have provided some key points of what they want to achieve through the process: