The NSW government has agreed to an offer to increase the wages of more than 50,000 health workers by 8.5% over two years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
From July 1 2025, staff including allied health workers, hospital cleaners, scientists, security officers, and patient transport officers will receive a pay increase of 4.0% plus 0.5% in superannuation.<\/p>\n
Another 4% increase will be awarded from 1 July 2026.<\/p>\n
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey announced the deal with the Health Services Union (HSU) on Monday, noting the final offer was consistent with the government\u2019s new \u2018fair pay and bargaining\u2019 policy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis offer\u2026\u00a0 is a major next step in repairing our state\u2019s healthcare,\u201d Mookhey said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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By continuing, you agree to our Terms & Conditions<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThese allied health workers, hospital cleaners, scientists, security officers, patient transport officers and others play a crucial role in giving the people of NSW the care they expect.<\/p>\n \u201cThe government continues to invest in our state\u2019s essential services by ensuring certainty for the people who provide them, and for the people who rely on them.\u201d<\/p>\n Expanded benefits under the new deal range from a reduction in the number of days (from five to three) before a worker can claim payment of higher-grade duties; a longer lead time to give notice for roster changes (from two to four weeks); and longer rest periods between rostered shifts (from eight to 10 hours).<\/p>\n The final offer also reflects significant reforms to NSW Health Awards covered by the HSU.<\/p>\n Health minister Ryan Park said the deal was part of a comprehensive and longterm repair plan for healthcare in the state.<\/p>\n Rebuilding essential services began with re-investing in the workers who delivered them, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe abolished the wages cap and established a new bargaining framework.We are working to fix recruitment and retention,\u201d Park said.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cMore health staff, lower wait times, better health outcomes \u2013 it\u2019s as simple as that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NSW government has agreed to an offer to increase the wages of more than 50,000 health workers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[50390,64,63,50391,7136,137,50392,500,50393,50394,50395,673,16862,43842,21920,50396,23918,2888,20628,50397,50398,48995,5792,4848,50399],"class_list":["post-62600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-allied-health-workers","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-mookhey","tag-deal","tag-health","tag-health-services-union-hsu","tag-healthcare","tag-hospital-cleaners","tag-hsu","tag-negotiation","tag-new-south-wales","tag-nsw-government","tag-nsw-health","tag-offer","tag-patient-transport-officers","tag-pay","tag-ryan-park","tag-scientists","tag-security-officers","tag-sophie-cotsis","tag-state-government","tag-superannuation","tag-wages","tag-wages-cap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}