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'Staffing crisis and poor pay': courthouses crippled as sheriffs strike

It comes after sheriffs protested outside Newcastle court last month.

Newcastle Herald

Sheriffs' defy industrial commission, walk-off over pay

The union representing sheriffs and other public servants and the state government department employing them have been ordered to work things out.

AAP

Australian state orders public servants to stop remote working after a newspaper campaign against it

Public employees in Australia's most populous state have been told to end remote working in a directive from the premier of New South Wales as he seeks to reverse work-from-home habits established during the pandemic

The Independent UK

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Worsening child protection crisis a 'full scale social disaster' says union

Rising number of caseworkers on leave due to stress and injury

Newcastle Herald

Sheriff strike could end up in court if talks fail

Sheriffs walked off the job at NSW courts but could find themselves back in one fighting for higher pay, as workers seek more than the state has offered.

AAP

'Difficult work': sheriffs demand vacant jobs filled, higher pay

The protest will take place outside Newcastle courthouse

Newcastle Herald

Caseworker shortage creating sector-wide 'burn out'

Child protection staff are walking off the job in protest as data shows fewer than than one in four at-risk kids in NSW are being seen by a caseworker.

AAP

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Caseworkers walk off job, unable to save at-risk kids

Three in four at-risk children fall through the cracks in the child protection system in NSW, leaving most neglected and ultimately turning towards crime.

AAP

Child protection workers 'can't do their job' in system that has collapsed

'People need hope. At the moment it's a hopeless situation.'

Newcastle Herald

Child protection system on verge of collapse: workers

The child protection system is on the verge of collapse with vulnerable children increasingly at risk of receiving no care, caseworkers say.

AAP

Mass exodus of frontline caseworkers from child protection system

Hundreds of workers have opened compensation claims due to stress and burnout.

Newcastle Herald

Data reveals 'gaping holes' in child-protection system

Spiking caseworker vacancies fuelled by burnout and trauma are leaving thousands of children in the NSW protection system at risk, data shows.

AAP

‘Golden opportunity’: NSW Labor under pressure to deliver promised public sector wage rises

Unions urge incoming premier Chris Minns to overhaul working conditions for frontline workers

The Guardian - AU

Future unclear for Wollongong SES headquarters after flood report recommends RFS merger

Questions are being raised about the future of the facility's 200 staff and what a "back office" merger between the two agencies would look like.

ABC News

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AAP

NSW prison staff strike on charge upgrade

NSW prison officers are off the job on Friday, protesting the upgrading of a manslaughter charge against one of their colleagues over a 2019 death in custody.

ABC News

NSW corrections officer faces upgraded charge of murder over death of Indigenous inmate

A Corrective Services officer is facing an upgraded murder charge over the shooting of an Indigenous inmate during an escape attempt in 2019. WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains the image of a person who has died.

ABC News

NSW public sector employees strike for 24 hours over 3 per cent wage increase offer

Hundreds of public sector workers march through Sydney's CBD as part of a 24-hour strike over the NSW government's wage increase offer of 3 per cent.

ABC News

Sydney news: Public sector employees to join Hyde Park rally and NSW parliament march today

MORNING BRIEFING: A statewide strike of public sector workers will go ahead today, despite a commitment by the NSW government to lift wages.

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AAP

NSW public service strike after pay offer

NSW public sector workers are on strike, saying they deserve a pay rise above inflation after a decade of wage restraint.

ABC News

New South Wales public sector workers to strike, despite 3 per cent pay rise offer

About 30,000 public sector workers are expected to take part in a 24-strike on Wednesday, unless the New South Wales government revises its offer, their union says.

AAP

Strike threat in NSW public sector pay row

The NSW premier says he will respond "very shortly" to a threat from the state's public service union to go on strike next week over pay.

AAP

NSW public sector union threatens strike

The union representing public service workers has joined others in demanding a pay rise from the state government, threatening to strike for 24 hours.

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