The Commonwealth’s biggest agency Services Australia is set to strike for 24 hours, beginning what is expected to be a wave of industrial action by public servants in protest against the Albanese government’s 11 per cent pay offer.

The Community and Public Sector Union notified the agency on Thursday that members at the 32,000-strong workforce would stop work on Monday, October 9, after rejecting its “meagre” 0.7 per cent increase on its first offer of 10.5 per cent over three years.