Nurses and midwives will receive their largest pay increase in more than two decades after a ruling from the independent industrial umpire today, with the wage boost being an all-time record-breaker for the lowest paid amongst them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Minns Government welcomes the decision delivered by the Industrial Relations Commission, which was restored to resolve exactly this type of matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ruling will see nurses and midwives receive an historic pay rise of between 16 and 28 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Backdated to July 2025, the pay rise will comprise a reset increase of between 10 and 22 per cent. This will be followed by a 3 per cent increase from July 2026 and a further 3 per cent from July 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Labor was elected with a mandate to scrap the Liberals and Nationals\u2019 unfair wages cap and restore the independent adjudicator. Since then, we have worked closely with workers and unions to rebuild the industrial relations system, putting fairness back at the centre of workers\u2019 pay. This includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All this has been achieved through careful economic management, while putting people at the centre of decisions. Our approach has been in stark contrast to the Liberals and Nationals\u2019 reliance on short-sighted privatisation and punitive wages freeze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Opposition must now come clean on whether it remains committed to a wages policy that leaves workers going backwards, after it suppressed pay and refused to introduce safe nurse-to-patient ratios while in government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Treasurer Daniel Mookhey said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNurses and midwives are the beating heart of our health workforce and while we acknowledge this was a hard-fought dispute, we believe it is a fair outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis pay rise is meaningful cost of living support that would have been impossible under the Coalition\u2019s oppressive wages freeze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBringing back the Industrial Relations Commission to serve as an independent umpire is a much better way to resolve a dispute than a blunt wages cap.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Health Minister Ryan Park said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNurses and midwives will receive one of the largest pay increases in a generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis historic pay increase would not have been possible without the hard work undertaken between the Minns Labor Government and the union movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTogether, with the Nurses & Midwives Association, we have worked to recruit 1,200 nurses to roll out staff to patient ratios, saved 1,112 nurses that the Coalition planned to axe, and we will deliver one of the most significant pay increases for nurses and midwives in a generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Minister for Industrial Relations Sophie Cotsis said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFor too long, nurses and midwives have been held back by the former government\u2019s draconian wages freeze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAfter 12 years of neglect, we promised to rebuild the state’s essential services and reform the state\u2019s industrial relations system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe days of governments dictating wages are now over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe’ve introduced a modern bargaining framework, rebuilt the Industrial Relations Commission and we\u2019ve changed the law to put the achievement of gender equity as an object of the Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c90% of nurses and midwives are women and today\u2019s outcome demonstrates why gender equity matters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nurses and midwives will receive their largest pay increase in more than two decades after a ruling from the independent industrial umpire today, with the wage boost being an all-time record-breaker for the lowest paid amongst them. The Minns Government welcomes the decision delivered by the Industrial Relations Commission, which was restored to resolve exactly … Continue reading “Historic pay increase for nurses & midwives”<\/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-38441","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\/38441","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=38441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38442,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38441\/revisions\/38442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}