Health and Community Services Union

HACSU continues to fight to maintain your current terms and conditions of employment, including better workloads for House Supervisors, whilst advocating for a fair pay outcome that reflects the important difference you make to the lives of people living with a disability. 
Despite five meetings with DHS, details of what they are seeking still remain unclear. However, it is evident they want to strip you of conditions including:

The union representing psychiatric nurses and mental health clinicians says that the Department of Health’s December 2011 quarter Victorian Health Services Performance Report  vindicates the union’s Enterprise Bargaining Agreement claims that psychiatric in-patient units in Victorian hospitals are continuing to struggle to meet the demand, and that the State Government needs to invest properly in staff levels and training, and more beds.

In a major win for Victorian psychiatric nurses, last week the full bench of the Federal Court rejected an appeal by Ballarat Health Services to overturn the Commuted Allowance case win last year by the Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) against Ballarat Health for underpaying shift allowances in excess of $110,000.