Registered agreements are valid until terminated or issued. Nurses and mater midwives have not received a salary increase for almost 2 years and the organization has rejected the UNQ`s request to pass on an increase through an administrative increase while negotiations are over. In addition, the organization threatened its nurses and midwives that the mater would withdraw the offer of additional payment if the agreement is rejected by them in the vote. The Fair Work Commission can also help employers and workers negotiate with their New Approaches programme. Read more about The New Approaches on the Fair Work Commission website. Remember that there is always a lot of information and activity during negotiations. You and your colleagues need to stay active and involved (more than ever) in order to ensure the implementation of the agreement and address issues in your workplace for the duration of the agreement. Ask your colleagues to join you as a Member of Together so you can get the most out of this new agreement. The best way to express attention to EB or other issues at work is to contact your delegates or union office. If a job has a registered agreement, the bonus does not apply. However, as Minister of Health, we ask you to intervene urgently in this matter in order to protect the patient health services provided by Mater from the obvious long-term consequences in terms of human resource retention and quality of services.
In addition, your participation is necessary to ensure transparency on Mater`s use of public funds and for nurses and midwives to secure a proposed final agreement guaranteeing terms that match those of Queensland Health. Although negotiations between the Queensland Nurses` Union of Employees (QNU) and Mater began 12 months ago, Mater`s full offer to its care staff is unknown. Mater made it clear that many of the current terms and conditions of employment, which are reconciled with Queensland Health nurses and midwives, are being abolished or reduced. Examples include the removal of nursing/midwifery heads from classification/generic declarations, restrictions on the payment of continuing education allowance, proportional access to Long Service Leave after 7 years, and reduction of pay for public holiday work. The proposed rate of pay for work performed on public holidays is lower than the 2010 Nurses Award and the Nurses and Midwives (Queensland Health) Certified Agreement (EB8). As a publicly funded organisation in a manner consistent with funding public sector health services for the provision of healthcare in Queenslanders, we believe Mater should maintain working conditions that correspond to those of Queensland Health. . .
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