Healthcare workers will appear in the Fair Work Commission in Melbourne today seeking to force Eastern Health to release the secret modelling behind the planned privatisation of its workforce. Eastern Health is preparing to push its entire healthcare support workforce into the employment of a multinational labour-hire firm. The move would affect more than 300 workers performing […]
Public health body Eastern Health is being called on to immediately ditch plans to force hundreds of workers into the employment of a private for-profit labour hire firm. Eastern Health operates several public healthcare facilities across Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, including the Box Hill and Maroondah hospitals, as well as smaller facilities in Blackburn, Lilydale, Healesville,
Eastern Health must abandon plans to privatise healthcare support workers. Read More »
What is an Enterprise Agreement? An Enterprise Agreement (EA) is a negotiated deal between employees and their employer that sets pay, leave, safety, and workplace conditions for the next three years. Your Union, the HWU, bargains with ACL on your behalf to secure fairer pay and better conditions, but it’s up to YOU to vote
The Health Workers Union (HWU) has today written to the Prime Minister and Federal Health Minister calling on the Commonwealth Government to reject the Fair Work Commission’s (FWC) shocking undervaluation of ‘indirect carers’ in aged care and fund the gap between the insulting 3% increase allocated to ‘indirect carers’ and long awaited and justly deserved increase of
The HWU has now begun bargaining for the next Edgarly Homes Enterprise Agreement. This Agreement will determine the future pay rates and conditions for all Edgarly Homes staff. The Health Workers Union are the union representing Edgarly Homes employees including including Personal Carers, Leisure and Lifestyle, Administration, Food Services, Laundry, Cleaners and Maintenance workers. The
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Stephen Parsons (pictured), a PSA and HWU Delegate at Eastern Health, has won a major dispute at the Fair Work Commission. Stephen’s win Eastern Health were changing Stephen’s roster without 7 days’ notice, typically to have him start work earlier than he’d been rostered, but then refusing to pay him change of roster allowance. Stephen
