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Your Enterprise Agreement
The Public Service Association is the principal union for public sector employees in South Australia.
Around 40,000 South Australian public sector employees are covered by an enterprise employment agreement titled:
‘South Australian Public Sector Enterprise Agreement 2021: Salaried’.
Before the formal enterprise agreement negotiations the PSA created a survey to find out what key areas PSA members want to be addressed in a new agreement.
These key priorities from that survey are:
- Wages
- Job Protection
- Workload
- Improving conditions
Get caught up on what's been happening
All Member Enterprise Agreement Updates
The issues that matter to PSA Members - a detailed summary
Key Resources
Get involved
- If you're not a PSA member, join today!
- Organise to host a meeting in your workplace - Contact: youragreement@psaofsa.asn.au
- Follow the PSA on social media to stay in the loop with any updates. Facebook and Instagram.
Enterprise Agreement Newsfeed
15 April 2025
14 April 2025
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10 April 2025
Congratulations to the SA members that are taking action, and demanding the attention of your CE and the SA Government!
9 April 2025
8 April 2025
PSA members at Parliament House.
Enterprise Bargaining for new Parliament House staff agreements continued on Friday, 21 March 2025, where the Public Service Association of SA (PSA) outlined its position regarding the employer’s latest offer, as outlined here
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
26 March 2025
25 March 2025
AUTHORISED ACTION AT THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE - COMMENCING NOW
AUTHORISED ACTION AT THE STATE LIBRARY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA – COMMENCING NOW
PSA Enterprise Agreement Meeting notices
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services – Helen Mayo House.
- REMINDER: Meeting today all members at NALHN Mental Health
- REMINDER: Upcoming Important PSA Worksite Representative session about AHP and AHA matters
- CALHN Mental Health
24 March 2025
PSA Enterprise Agreement Meeting notices
21 March 2025
PSA Enterprise Agreement Meeting notices
20 March 2025
PSA Enterprise Agreement Meeting notices
- WCHN SA Pathology
- SafeWork SA
- Environmental Protection Authority (EPA)
- Service SA
- Attorney General’s Department – CBS
- Service SA Mitcham
- DCP Gawler Central Office and DCP Gawler East Office
- DCP Playford office
19 March 2025
PSA Enterprise Agreement Meeting notices
18 March 2025
17 March 2025
Important PSA Health Worksite Representative Session about AHP and AHA Matters
Following our recent successful Zoom meetings for all PSA Allied Health Professional (AHP) and Allied Health Assistant (AHA) members across the public sector, the PSA is now holding a specific Health Worksite Representative session.
This session is for those Health Worksite Representatives who represent AHPs or AHAs in their worksite, or who interact with AHPs and AHAs.
17 March 2025
Joint Meeting re: Next steps for Authorised Industrial Action:
14 March 2025
AHP and AHA Separate Enterprise Agreement Meeting held today.
Whether there is a single agreement or a separate agreement, the PSA remains the only union who can enter into an agreement on behalf of members.
A single agreement or a separate agreement will have no effect on your PSA membership, nor the PSA’s commitment to represent you as a member, nor our determination to achieve an agreement that meets your needs.
At the meeting, PSA General Secretary Natasha Brown asked the government whether the current Salaried Enterprise Agreement would form the basis of negotiations for improvements in their proposed separate agreement. In response, the government would not commit to retaining all the conditions currently contained in the Salaried Enterprise Agreement.
The government did not provide any further details about what may or may not be included in their proposed separate agreement. Instead, they stated that they would meet with the various interested parties separately. The PSA has requested a further meeting with the government as soon as possible.
The PSA will not accept any reduction in conditions for our members.
PSA General Secretarys Statement – AHP and AHA Separate Enterprise Agreement Negotiations 14 March 2025.pdf from PSA General Secretary Natasha Brown as delivered to the meeting held today, 14 March 2025, for negotiation of an enterprise agreement exclusively for AHPs and AHAs.
AUTHORISED ACTION IN SA HEALTH TEAMS – COMMENCING NOW
12 March 2025
PSA Members covered by the AHPRA agreement.
AHPRA and the CPSU/PSA have put forward a proposal that would see a 4.25% pay increase in July 2025 and a delay in Enterprise Agreement negotiations until December 2025. As your union, we want to ensure your voice is heard before responding to this proposal.
11 March 2025
8 March 2025
3 March 2025
28 February 2025
PSA REJECTS PARLIAMENT’S INFERIOR PROPOSAL – SUGGESTS NEW APPROACH
Enterprise Bargaining for new Parliament House staff agreements continued on 14 and 21 February 2025, where the employer tabled a revised proposal to staff, after the rejected ballot and conference in the South Australian Employment Tribunal.
Please distribute to all PSA members in Parliament House.
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.
24 February 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.
14 February 2025 ✊ All Member EA update: FAQ's on Authorised Industrial Action & What the issues that matter to PSA members
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
11 February 2025
Upcoming Enterprise Agreement Meetings
- TAFE SA Regency + TAFE SA Gillies Plains PSA Enterprise Agreement Meeting Notice
- SA Pathology, RAH and Frome Road - PSA Enterprise Agreement Meeting Notice
- Attorney-General’s Department, CBS - PSA Enterprise Agreement Meeting Notice
10 February 2025
Upcoming Enterprise Agreement Meetings
- Department for Infrastructure and Transport - PSA Enterprise Agreement Meeting Notice
- TAFE SA Noarlunga and Tonsley - PSA Enterprise Agreement Meeting Notice
- Department of Human Services (DHS) Riverside - PSA Enterprise Agreement Meeting Notice
- SACE Board SA - PSA Enterprise Agreement Meeting Notice
- Flinders Medical Centre Finance and Southern Adelaide Local Health Tonsley Administration - PSA Enterprise Agreement Meeting Notice
- Flinders Medical Centre Medical Coding - PSA Enterprise Agreement Meeting Notice
- Adelaide Magistrate Court, Youth Court, Sir Samuel Way building, Supreme Court, Christies Beach and Elizabeth Court - PSA Enterprise Agreement Meeting Notice
7 February 2025
Make sure that you are following the PSA on Facebook
6 February 2025 - Update - Authorised Action at DCP
Upcoming Enterprise Agreement Meetings - DCP
31 January 2025
Authorised Industrial Action – Frequently Asked Questions
Upcoming Enterprise Agreement Meetings
- SA Health
- SA Pathology
- SAHT – Adelaide Regional Office and Contact Centre Naylor Office
- DCP Playford office.
30 January 2025
28 January 2025
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.
20 January 2025
15 January 2025
ABC Radio Adelaide - SA Mornings.
PSA General Secretary Natasha Brown spoke to Rory McClaren about the SA Public Sector negotiations for a new enterprise agreement.
13 January 2025
PSA Members are taking Authorised Action in the fight for Wage Justice!
- Authorised Action at Western Adult Community Mental Health: Commencing 13 January 2025
- Authorised Action at Northern Older Persons Mental Health Services Community, Commencing 13 January 2025
- Authorised Action at Community Mental Health Teams Based at Modbury Community Mental Health Site: North Eastern Community Mental Health and all Forensic Community Mental Health Services Commencing 13 January 2025
PSA members: If you have any questions or require any support as a result of taking this action, please contact the PSA Members’ Rights Hotline on 8205 3227.
2 January 2025
20 December 2024
19 December 2024
18 December 2024
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.
11 December 2024
In the media
"Members of the public service union will undertake industrial action next week amid negotiations with the state government over pay which a new report said was “the worst in Australia”.
Read the article on InDaily SA
FiveAA Interview
PSA General Secretary Natasha Brown spoke to FiveAA about the new report 'Economic Prosperity, Public Sector Restraint' from the Australia Institute. This report clearly shows that the SA Government has had strong economic growth and can well afford to give SA public sector employees a wage increase that is desperately needed.
10 December 2024 ✊ All Member EA update: SA Public Sector wage decline 'painful and extreme' despite record State economic growth, says new report
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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
9 December 2024
South Australian public sector wages have fallen dramatically in real terms – despite South Australia’s economy outperforming other Australian states, a new report from The Australia Institute reveals.
The report – entitled Economic Prosperity, Public Sector Restraint and commissioned by the Public Service Association of SA (PSA) – shows that from 2018-19 to 2023-24 the South Australian economy grew cumulatively by almost 15% and faster than any other state due to government and household consumption and rapidly increasing private business investment.
4 December 2024 ✊ All Member EA update: The process and representation for a new enterprise agreement
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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.
3 December 2024
29 November 2024
28 November 2024
27 November 2024
19 November 2024
18 November 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.
Read the full update here
13 November 2024
The PSA Formally Rejects Government’s Shameful ‘Initial Proposition’.
The PSA has formally rejected the government’s ‘initial proposition’ for salary increases in your new enterprise agreement. In our response to the government, PSA General Secretary Natasha Brown labelled the ‘initial proposition’ as a “shameful insult to all public sector workers covered by this agreement”, and that the PSA rejects the “‘proposition’ in its insulting entirety.”
Read the full update here
11 November 2024
4 November 2024 ✊ All member EA update: The PSA has received a insulting 'intial proposition' from the SA Government
The PSA received the SA Government's so-called 'initial proposition' for a new Salaried Enterprise Agreement.
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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 Update
The 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.
25 September 2024
12 September 2024
11 September 2024
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
20 August 2024
15 August 2024
9 August 2024 ✊All Member EA 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
30 July 2024
26 July 2024
25 July 2024 ✊ All Member EA Update: Survey results
Beginning in late 2023, and continuing during the first half of 2024, the PSA conducted extensive consultation with members including statewide worksite visits and an all-member survey.
Read the brief here
What you have told us: PSA Enterprise Agreement Survey Results
The PSA membership have determined our 4 key priorities for the upcoming enterprise agreement negotiations, which are:
- Wages
- Job protection
- Workload
- Improving conditions
You can read more about these priorities in the document:
What you have told us - 2024.pdf
About the PSA Enterprise Agreement Survey
Before the formal enterprise agreement negotiations the PSA created a survey to find out what key areas PSA members want to be addressed in a new agreement. This was an opportunity to thoroughly hear from members on what matters to you in your enterprise agreement. While the survey was open organisers were visiting worksites all across South Australia to speak to members across many SA Government departments on all things EA.
The survey opened to members on 4 March 2024 and closed midnight Sunday 28 April 2024.
The PSA collated the survey results to identify the key issues, that would guide our negotiation objectives.
Our more specific agenda was refined by consultation with PSA members.
The PSA Council has endorsed these priorities as underpinning the PSA's negotiating position for a new salaried agreement.
PSA organisers will continue to visit worksites to talk to members about the PSA enterprise agreement negotiations.
Make sure to keep an eye on your emails - as meeting notices are distributed by email.
4 July 2024
25 June 2024
20 May 2024
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.
Download
You can take action today and help us spread the word about our current negotiations for a new enterprise agreement, by downloading our posters & flyers to email or display in your workplace.
If you would like to receive an Enterprise Agreement pack of our EA print materials, please email youragreement@psaofsa.asn.au
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About Us
The PSA has been agitating for improved conditions for public sector workers for nearly 140 years.
Learn more about the history of public sector conditions and agreements.
Membership matters
We all know that PSA members working together can improve outcomes for public sector workers and the community. You and your colleagues have the power to make a real difference. But we have to be in it together to make that difference.
Ask those yet to join you in the PSA to join online today.
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With PSA membership you know you're protected at work and have access to a huge range of member benefits. We strive for a South Australian public sector in which staff are highly valued and well resourced, with fair and secure working conditions.
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