2023 Award discussions have begun

Details: Published: Wednesday, 05 October 2022 11:41

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The unions and LGNSW, the parties to the State Award, met on 13 September. We had the normal ceremonial arguments and sabre rattling but with a focus about cost of living increases, the urgency of pay increases, the need for them to be decent and reflective of the cost of living, and something well beyond what we’ve been used to in recent years. And the industry’s capacity or incapacity to pay.

Critically, the State Award was made by consent of the parties back in October 1991 and has been varied by consent of the parties ever since. Sure, there have been occasions when members of the Commission have assisted conciliating questions that were proving difficult to resolve (and may in this Award as well) but historically it has been an unprecedented history of cooperation.

And just like a human pyramid, everyone needs to be working hard cooperatively to make the thing work.

We went through the log of claims by LGNSW and set a timetable to file a dispute for those occasions when we may need the Commission to assist by settling some issues that can’t be agreed, a timetable of dates, through to making the 2023 Award to operate from the first pay period after 1 July.

Here is our Log of Claims and here is the Logs of Claims by LGNSW, the USU and LGEA.