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’.

Formal negotiations for a new enterprise agreement started on 9 September 2024.

2024 is an important time to get involved with your union! Together we can improve our workplace rights, and organise to protect the rights that we fought hard to get. 

Enterprise Agreement Updates 

13 December 2024

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

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.

11 December 2024

10 December 2024

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

18 November 2024

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

4 November 2024

The PSA received the SA Government's so-called 'initial proposition' for a new Salaried Enterprise Agreement.

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

15 August 2024

7 August 2024
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 July 2024

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:

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

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. 

Get involved

• Check-in with your co-workers who are also PSA members to see if they have done the PSA survey
• 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.

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 

THE SA PUBLIC SECTOR NEEDS A PAY RISE - (A4).pdf

EB - THE SA PUBLIC SECTOR NEEDS A PAY RISE - (A3).pdf

Stay connected to your EA (A4 Landscape Poster).pdf

WAGE JUSTICE NOW - Poster A4.pdf

EA - what is an enterprise agreement.pdf

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.

Read more here

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.