✊ All Member Enterprise Agreement Updates 2024-2025

28 March 2025 ✊ All Member EA update: Part 1 The SA Government makes an appalling offer for a separate agreement

PART 1

On Tuesday 18 March 2025, the PSA met with SA government enterprise agreement negotiators to advocate for the PSA’s position and the matters of importance for our members. 

In short - The PSA told the SA government:

• The PSA supports keeping a single agreement for all salaried employees / SA public sector workers
  
  
• A significant wage increase is the no 1# priority for PSA members, as our members have experienced an 8-10% decrease in the real value of our wages. Making up the difference of this needs to be the starting point BEOFORE additional wage increases are applied to keep above inflation in future years.
  
  
• Attraction and retention remain a significant issue to address
  
  

Read more about the rest of this meeting with the SA government here: EA Update - Appaling Separate Agreement Offer - Part 1

PART 2

 ✊ All Member EA update: Part 2 The SA Government makes an appalling offer for a separate agreement

On Thursday 27 March 2025, the SA government wrote the PSA, providing an offer for a new separate enterprise agreement for AHPs and AHAs. 

Prior to this letter, the PSA had not been provided with these terms, are are appalled by them.

This offer in short:

• Slashes job security protections - that we fought hard to protect last EA
• Wages that don't address the 10% decline of 'real wage value' that SA public sector employees are experiencing
• An outrageous proposal to BAN industrial action during disputes 

And this is just the start of it, get the full details here Read:  EA Update - Appaling Separate Agreement offer - Part 2

27 February 2025 ✊ All Member EA update: The SA Government still refuses to acknowledge that the cost of living has reduced the real value of your wages

In Short

• The government’s position remains unchanged from their ‘initial proposal’

• The PSA is emphasising to the government  the need for an agreement-wide increase to base salaries

• The government still has not provided the PSA any proposals for a new enterprise agreement    

• Achieving wage justice is the PSA’s number one priority in these enterprise agreement negotiations.

Read the full update here

24 Feb 2025 ✊ All Member EA update: The SA Government's move to negotiate a separate agreement for small group of public sector workers is hostile

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR PSA MEMBERS - GOVERNMENT MOVE IS UNDERMINING, DIVISIVE, AND POLITICAL

The government last week issued a new Notice of Intention to Negotiate an Enterprise Agreement for Allied Health Professionals and Allied Health Assistants across the public sector.

This is the most hostile approach from a government in more than 25 years of negotiating the salaried agreement. It is a clear attempt by the government to “divide and conquer” their own workforce.

This is the government which still refuses to acknowledge that PSA members are suffering from a cost of living crisis, and refuses to accept that significant wage increases are required to address PSA members’ issues and the current attraction and retention crisis plaguing our public sector.

Allied Health Professionals and Allied Health Assistants are currently part of the salaried agreement. They are PSA members who the PSA represents and for whom the PSA advocates and negotiates. The employer’s notice does not change this.

The position of the PSA and our broad membership remains for a single agreement for all those employees covered by the current salaried agreement. This position is derived from the thorough all-member engagement the PSA undertook in the lead-up to these negotiations. It was confirmed by PSA members’ elected PSA Council through the union’s democratic processes. It was not determined by the whims of a few individual members.

Read the full update here

14 February 2025 ✊ All Member EA update: FAQ's on Authorised Industrial Action & What the issues that matter to PSA members

Read the full update here

In short:

• The PSA continues to meet with the government for negotiations.

• A further letter about the PSA’s agenda for negotiations has been sent to the government

• PSA members have begun administrative based authorised industrial action as part of the PSA’s broader campaign.

• Achieving wage justice is the PSA’s number one priority in the enterprise agreement negotiations that are currently underway.

The PSA has once again provided a detailed written summary of the matters which are important to PSA members for inclusion in this round of enterprise agreement negotiations. You can read the letter in full here. (PDF)

Read the plain text version here

24 January 2025 ✊ All Member EA update: PSA member will be starting to take authorised industrial action

Salaried Enterprise Agreement Negotiations - January 2025 Update
PSA representatives have continued to meet with the government to negotiate your enterprise agreement. The government still does not acknowledge that PSA members are suffering a cost of living crisis. PSA members – increasingly concerned about the government’s dismissive approach – are now taking, and preparing to take, a range of actions together in support of a respectful agreement.

Read the full update here.

13 December 2024  ✊ All Member EA update: SA Government still refuses to acknowledge cost of living has reduced the real value of your wages
The PSA met again with the SA Government this week, and they still refuses to acknowledge cost of living has reduced the real value of your wages. 

Read the full update here

10 December 2024 ✊ All Member EA update: SA Public Sector wage decline 'painful and extreme' despite record State economic growth, says new report

Read the Research here

A new report titled 'Economic Prosperity, Public Sector Restraint' from Centre for Future Work at The Australia Institute says that the SA Public Sector wage decline is "painful and extreme" despite record state economic growth.

The report also shows that historically low unemployment levels and better wages in the private sector are making the public sector less attractive as an employer.

The government must offer more competitive wages and conditions to attract and retain staff to keep our public service strong. The PSA is calling for WAGE JUSTICE NOW!  Read the PSA's update here

4 December 2024 ✊ All Member EA update: The process and representation for a new enterprise agreement

A “log of claims” is essentially a set of proposals, or a list of topics for consideration, which parties bring to the negotiation table.

Our number one claim — our members’ highest priority — for these negotiations is a wages outcome that deals with the cost of living crisis which is hurting our members. The PSA has been upfront and advocating strongly about this for a very long time.

Read the full update here

18 Nov 2024 ✊ All Member EA update: The PSA calls on the SA Government to take a reality check

The PSA has called on the government to acknowledge the reality of the cost of living crisis hurting PSA members, and to confirm its representatives have authority to negotiate.

4 Nov 2024 ✊ All member EA update: The PSA has received a insulting 'intial proposition' from the SA Government

Read the full update here: PDF: 4 November 2024 PSA ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT UPDATE GOVERNMENT’S “INITIAL PROPOSITION”.pdf 

Plain text version - Via the news section

1 Nov 2024 ✊ All Member EA UpdateThe early stages of an enterprise agreement negotiation process are always about establishing respective positions, and establishing how negotiations will be conducted. 

Each round of negotiations has its own dynamics and context.

10 Sep 2024 ✊All Member EA Update: Enterprise Agreement Negotiations formally underway, first meeting held today

The first formal meeting for all parties to the salaried enterprise agreement was held today, 9 September 2024.  

Read PSA General Secretary, Natasha Brown's statement at this meeting here

9 August 2024 ✊All Member Update: SA Government Responds to PSA's request to start Enterprise Bargaining

The government has now responded to the PSA’s formal request (here) that negotiations for a successor enterprise agreement to the current South Australian Public Sector Enterprise Agreement 2021: Salaried begin as soon as possible. The government’s letter confirms that negotiations will begin on the earliest date possible, that is, Monday 9 September 2024. You can read the letter from the government here.

Members should by now have received formal notification directly from the government stating their intention to commence negotiations for a new enterprise agreement.

7 August 2024 ✊ All Member EA Update - PSA Write to the Government, meets with the Premier
The PSA has now written to the government to formally request that negotiations for a successor enterprise agreement to the current South Australian Public Sector Enterprise Agreement 2021: Salaried start as soon as possible.  

The PSA has subsequently met with SA Premier, the Hon. Peter Malinauskas MP.  Read the full update here

25 Jul 2024 ✊ All Member EA Update: Survey results

The PSA membership have determined our 4 key priorities for the upcoming enterprise agreement negotiations, which are:

1. Wages
2. Job protection
3. Workload
4. Improving conditions

You can read more about these priorities in the document: What you have told us - 2024.pdf

9 May 2024 ✊ EA Update: Thousands respond to new Enterprise Agreement Survey

Thank you to the thousands of PSA members who took the time to complete the PSA survey on your priorities for your next Salaried Enterprise Agreement.

19 April 2024 ✊ EA Update: New Enterprise Agreement Survey closes next week

The PSA’s enterprise agreement membership survey will close at midnight on Sunday 28 April 2024. 

This is your agreement – it is time to have your say!

4 March 2024 ✊ Have your say: PSA Enterprise Agreement Survey

The PSA's All member Enterprise Agreement Survey is now open 

This is a tool to seek your input to identify the key areas that you would like to see addressed in a new agreement. The survey - open through March and early April - is the first step in the PSA’s membership engagement process toward the drafting of a claim for a new agreement.

Once this initial member feedback has been collated, the key bargaining issues identified will drive our broad negotiation objectives as our more specific agenda continues to be refined by consultation with members.