Public servants get back-to-back pay rises as unemployment grows
More than 40,000 Victorian public servants are pocketing an early Christmas present with back-to-back pay rises. Despite growing unemployment, the public service has voted to give itself a 3 per cent bump-up.
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Victoria’s more than 40,000 public servants will pocket back-to-back pay rises before Christmas as the state’s unemployment figures continue to grow.
Victorian Public Service employees have overwhelmingly voted to accept a new pay deal, that will see them pocket a more than 3 per cent pay rise once a string of lucrative bonuses are factored in.
More than 96 per cent of eligible employees that voted agreed to the new deal.
It comes while other businesses and employees are shutdown as part of stage 4 restrictions caused by Victoria’s second wave of coronavirus cases.
The agreement will now be submitted to the Fair Work Commission for endorsement with the first salary and allowance increases under the new deal to be backdated to March.
The next round of increases will take effect from December 1.
The new four-year deal ends a long-running enterprise bargaining dispute.
It includes annual pay increases, a new mobility payment, increased overtime rates and night shift allowances, more parental leave, and historic new provisions to close the gender pay gap in the Victorian Public Service.
Over 40,000 employees from more than 40 agencies in almost 400 specialist occupations are covered by the new proposed Agreement.
It comes as Victorians across the state battle unemployment, static income levels, wage cuts and reduced hours because of the economic impact of the coronavirus.
New treasury modelling has forecast the state’s unemployment rate to peak at 11 per cent.
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Originally published as Public servants get back-to-back pay rises as unemployment grows