Daily Archives: 06 Jun, 2022

Increased pay and $3,000 bonus for health workers

The NSW Government has announced a new public sector wages policy to provide increased pay for public sector employees including nurses, teachers, and paramedics. The new two-year policy provides among the highest public sector wages growth in the country with employees offered a 3.0 per cent remuneration increase per annum in 2022-23 and 2023-24, with…

The nation’s largest-ever health workforce boost

A record 10,148 full-time equivalent staff will be recruited to hospitals and health services across NSW over four years, in the nation’s largest-ever health workforce boost, as part of the NSW Government’s 2022-23 Budget. 7,674 more workers would be recruited in the first year, which will help ease pressure on COVID-fatigued health staff and fast-track…