Services Australia staff are striking for 24 hours on Monday over a pay dispute. Workers walked off the job on Monday, with the strike possibly impacting Centrelink and health insurance services. However, Services Australia general manager Hank Jongen told 7NEWS.com.au last week it was “making preparations to minimise potential disruption to our customers”.
national secretary Melissa Donnelly said the government needed to honour its commitment to the public sector. claims the latest offer from Services Australia of a 0.7 per cent increase on the proposed pay offer of 10.5 per cent over three years isn’t good enough. “The has rejected this offer because we know that we can and we should be aiming higher than 50 per cent, plus one,” Donnelly said. “The Albanese Labor Government made a commitment to the public service before their election to become a model employer and to rebuild the APS after a decade of damage and destruction. “In an environment where every APS worker is feeling the extreme cost of living pressures, the current pay offer doesn’t cut it,” she said.
notified the Australian Public Service Commission on Wednesday that the union would not be taking up the pay offer. Meanwhile, as of September 20, millions of Australian pensioners received a benefits increase offering some relief amid the mounting cost-of-living crisis hitting households across the country. In the biggest boost ever, recipients of the Age Pension, Disability Support Pension and Carer Payments received an increase of $32.
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