Current Issues

Protect Frontline Health

• 18 April 2012 Tasmania, we need YOUR HELP NOW!

  For your family, your friends and yourself.
  Doctors and Nurses are concerned about cuts to your health service and NEED YOUR HELP NOW.
  If you are concerned about budget cuts to our health system ADD YOUR VOICE TO OURS.
  TASMANIA’S HEALTH IS IN CRISIS …and this is just the beginning…
  The $100m budget cuts to health will have an [...]

  
• 5 April 2012 Statewide Community Forums
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Because We Care

• 20 April 2012 Because We Care Victory for Nurses & Care Workers

  ANF congratulates Aged Care Members for their ongoing commitment to the Because We Care campaign, and celebrates with you the Gillard Government announcement to inject $1.2 billion over five years for Australia’s under-resourced aged care workforce, as a centrepiece of its landmark overhaul of the aged care sector.
  This reform package is a victory for hard [...]

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• 5 April 2012 ANF National Press Club Address
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Public Sector EBA 2010

• 3 May 2012 Public Holidays Payment for Rotating Day Workers

  Day working nurses on non-fixed and rotating rosters have not received payment for public holidays in accordance with the Heads of Agreement and the Joint Fact Sheet.
  The ANF has been representing this group of members before the Tasmanian Industrial Commission. The DHHS has continued to refuse to honour the Agreement and agreed conditions as summarised [...]

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• 23 April 2012 Penalty Entitlements for Daylight Savings

  As per the Nurses and Midwives Heads of Agreement 2010, nurses are paid for actual hours worked, and this includes Sunday 1 April during the change from Daylight Savings time.  
  If you commenced night duty on Saturday 31 March, you will receive Saturday shift penalties until midnight. From midnight until the end of your shift [...]

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