The NSW Government has welcomed the decision of the nurses and midwives to endorse the government\u2019s pay offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The NSW Nurses and Midwives\u2019 Association held a statewide ballot of members with nearly 60 per cent voting today to receive a 4.5 per cent salary increase, including 0.5 per cent superannuation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A 4.5 per cent increase under the Government\u2019s Fair Pay Policy is the biggest pay increase for NSW nurses and midwives in over a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Government is continuing to work with other public sector unions on the resolution of other negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The wages cap is obsolete following the NSW Government\u2019s pay offer and will formally end in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minister for Health Ryan Park said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Minns Labor Government made a commitment to scrap the wages cap and deliver a pay increase to our frontline health workers including our nurses and midwives,\u201d Mr Park said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are committed to supporting our essential frontline workers and we\u2019re working hard to recruit, retain and support our workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Minister for Industrial Relations and Work Health and Safety Sophie Cotsis said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Minns Government is getting on with the job of fixing the recruitment and retention crisis in essential services and valuing our essential workers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Liberal-National\u2019s wages cap eroded trust between essential workers and government, suppressed wages and led to the staffing crisis. The wages cap is dead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe people of NSW deserve world class public services. We will continue to keep people at the heart of all of our work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The NSW Government has welcomed the decision of the nurses and midwives to endorse the government\u2019s pay offer. The NSW Nurses and Midwives\u2019 Association held a statewide ballot of members with nearly 60 per cent voting today to receive a 4.5 per cent salary increase, including 0.5 per cent superannuation. A 4.5 per cent increase … Continue reading “Nurses and Midwives endorse NSW Government wages offer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22175,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22174\/revisions\/22175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}