WA Government increases pay offer to public sector
Workers across a range of public sectors have today been offered between a three and six per cent pay increase.
Public sector workers earning less than $104,000 will be offered $3120 increase in their salary each year, over two years, and a $3000 one-off bonus.
Workers earning more than $104,000 will receive a $3000 bonus and a 3 per cent pay increase.
Unions WA Secretary, Owen Whittle who joined Oly Peterson on Perth Live says workers certainly welcome the move which is significantly better than previous offers, but will have to look closely and consider whether it’s enough.
“We know that a lot of our public sector workers in education, health and the general public sector have been under great strain…”Mr Whittle says.
“They’re looking for an offer that values their work, values their skills, and values the fact that they’ve kept the state running during the pandemic.”
Click PLAY to listen to the full chat on 6PR, and read on to see how nurses are responding.
Secretary Australian Nursing Federation, Janet Reah told Oly they have launched an online survey for members and the votes have been pouring in already.
“At the moment this pay-off hasn’t addressed the most important part of our lobbyers claims; nurse to patient ratios, to ensure safe workloads,” says Ms Reah
“We are sitting at 90 per cent rejection.”
“There’s a lot more to it for the nurses and midwives out there than just the money… They want to go to work and know they’ve got a regulated workload, and they’re not stressed and fearful about not only their registration, but their patients lives.”
Janet Reah told Oly Peterson that if this was included, 75 per cent would accept the proposed pay increase.
Click PLAY to hear their conversation.