As part of Wednesday`s union actions, workers worked for four hours from 12:30 p.m. at Mater Hospital itself, as well as at Maters Springfield and the Chermside Pathology Clinic. “This is unprecedented. I`ve made a lot of agreements in the health sector, both in the private and public sectors, and I`ve never seen anything like it.” About 50 Allied health workers attended the rally outside the South Brisbane hospital on Wednesday afternoon and asked management to listen to their concerns. Queensland Health has seven important agreements that prescribe wages and other conditions of employment for workers (excluding executives and executives). It is part of a larger dispute over salaries and conditions for the hospital`s 550 employees, including pathologists, occupational therapists, medical laboratory scientists and pharmacy staff. Primary employment conditions for the majority of Queensland Health employees are imposed by bonuses and agreements. An enterprise agreement is an agreement between an employer and its employees that is covered by the agreement setting the wages and conditions of these workers for a maximum of four years. The rewards and agreements of Queensland Health staff are: As Minister of Health, we ask you to take urgent action to protect mater`s health services from obvious long-term consequences on staff retention and quality of service. In addition, your participation is necessary to ensure transparency on Maters` use of public funds and to ensure that nurses and midwives obtain a proposed final agreement guaranteeing conditions consistent with those of Queensland Health. For more information on your representation rights under the Fair Work Act 2009, enterprise agreements and their negotiations, please contact: You have the right to appoint a negotiator to represent you in negotiations regarding the agreement or on an issue before the Fair Work Commission to negotiate the agreement. In a written statement, Justin Greenwell, The Regional Executive Director of Mater Health, said he wanted to conclude a new enterprise agreement for physicians that would “balance the best interests of both workers and health services.” Nurses and midwives have not received a pay increase for nearly two years and the organization has rejected the UNQ`s request to pass on a pay increase through an administrative increase while negotiations are over. In addition, the organization threatened its nurses and midwives that if the agreement was rejected by them in the vote, Mater would withdraw the offer of reimbursement from the table.

While the awards are presented by the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission (QIRC), agreements are negotiated by Queensland Health and Queensland Health staff representatives. After the agreement of the staff members covered by the proposed agreement (as part of a voting procedure), the agreements are certified by the QIRC. An enterprise agreement is an agreement between an employer and its employees that is covered by the agreement setting the wages and conditions of these workers for a maximum of four years. To enter into force, the agreement must be supported by the majority of workers who voted in favour of the agreement and it must be approved by an independent authority, the Fair Work Commission. If you are a member of a union authorized to represent your industrial interests in the work to be done under the agreement, your union will be your bargaining representative for the agreement, unless you appoint another person as your representative or if you revoke the union status of your representative.