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March 29th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Child protection workers will receive pay upgrades of up to 14.5 per cent following a union agreement struck with the Victorian government.
Fifteen hundred government employees will benefit from the deal, reached between the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) and Victorian government on Thursday following 18 months of negotiation.
The CPSU says new re-classification arrangements will improve some staffing issues and pay rates for child protection, community youth justice and secure welfare workers.
The new classification means workers will receive pay upgrades of one per cent to 14.5 per cent, in addition to any public sector wage rise to be ordered by Fair Work Australia during arbitration.
The upgrades will come into effect once a public sector pay deal is reached, or by October.
CPSU state secretary Karen Batt was happy with the outcome.
“We’re very pleased with the settlement, but it’s only a partial settlement to the whole public service wages deal which is still before Fair Work Australia in arbitration,” she told reporters.
“This covers 1500 people. The public service workplace determination covers 36,000, so this is a component of it.
“We’re hopeful a negotiation settlement that’s been achieved in child protection and community youth justice will also be able to encourage the government to sit down and negotiate and make a real wage offer for the rest of the public service.”
The agreement increases the graduate entry level rate from $52,000 to $55,000 and includes 52 new senior practitioners.
Ms Batt said the extra senior case practitioners will mean child protection workers can provide a better service and address issues that have been plaguing the service for a long time, including high employee turnover and excessive caseloads.
She said the deal included a new workload capacity, with an independent person to be appointed to review where there is a work overload for child protection staff.
“We think that will address many of the issues associated with the problems the child protection staff say about being overworked and overloaded with the notifications coming in.”
Workers have also secured increases in night shift allowance, a minimum 10 hour break between shifts and the lifting of overtime caps.
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