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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 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.
Key Resources
Authorised Industrial Action – Frequently Asked Questions
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_2025 EB - Unite for all you're worth - What is an enterprise agreement (a4).pdf
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10 December 2024
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!
Enterprise Agreement Updates
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
Negotiations Continue for your New Enterprise Agreement
The PSA met with government representatives late last week to continue negotiations for your new Enterprise Agreement.
24 February 2025
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.
19 February 2025
SA Government opts for division
The government today has 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 a serious development which signals the government’s preference to create division and disruption instead of dealing with PSA members’ critical issues.
14 February 2025
PSA members – increasingly concerned about the government’s dismissive approach – are now taking, and preparing to take, a range of co-ordinated authorised actions together in support of a respectful agreement.
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
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
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
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
3 December 2024
29 November 2024
28 November 2024
27 November 2024
19 November 2024
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.
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
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
25 September 2024
12 September 2024
11 September 2024
20 August 2024
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
30 July 2024
26 July 2024
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:
- 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
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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The SA public sector needs a payrise (A3) Landscape.pdf
The SA public sector needs a payrise (A4 (Landscape).pdf
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THE SA PUBLIC SECTOR NEEDS A PAY RISE - (A4).pdf
EB - THE SA PUBLIC SECTOR NEEDS A PAY RISE - (A3).pdf
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Stay connected to your EA (A4 Landscape Poster).pdf
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WAGE JUSTICE NOW - Poster A4.pdf
_2025 EB - Unite for all you're worth - What is an enterprise agreement (a4).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.
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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Member
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.
Public Service Association of SA
122 Pirie Street Adelaide
Member Benefits Centre
Ground Floor, 122 Pirie Street
8:30am to 4:30pm