Aged Care Updates – Statewide

Statewide

Uniting AgeWell

Uniting AgeWell (UAW) have decided to take their proposed Uniting AgeWell (Tasmania) Enterprise Agreement (EA) 2024 to ballot, so UAW employees including our members can have the opportunity to cast their ballot in respect to this agreement. View the latest update.

May Shaw Health Services

Responses to our Log of Claims (LoC) survey have now been finalised, de identified and presented to your employer as a basis for your claims. Workplace Delegates are encouraged to talk to your manager to arrange for cover so you can leave the floor to attend the EA negotiations, please let your ANMF Organiser know if you would like to attend the meetings so an invitation can be organised prior to the commencement of the bargaining meetings. ANMF Northern Organiser Nicki Hood visited Swansea on Tuesday 1 April. Nicki will be visiting Scottsdale on Friday 4 April 2025, if you would like to discuss matters that are important to you, your presence will be warmly received at the member meeting.

North

Medea Park

At the last bargaining meeting the ANMF pressed that a clinical handover is vital to provide the best care to residents, and for nurses the requirement to provide, and receive, a clinical handover is also a requirement to meet professional standards expected from nurses. The ANMF also pressed that Medea Park should have passed on the wage increase following the determination from the Fair Work Value Case (FWVC). The ANMF has requested Medea Park review the wage offer to nurses to take this increase into account before moving to draft the new agreement. Once ANMF have received the draft we will review the offer and provide an overall summary to members prior to voting.

Aged Care Deloraine

The ANMF is expecting your employer to finalise all outstanding matters regarding the replacement EA before moving to the access period. ANMF members are encouraged to consider the final offer in full before voting. Once the details are provided to the ANMF we will send a newsflash to members with a summary of the offer.

North West

Baptcare Karingal

Following lengthy discussions, Baptcare has moved to an access period for staff; Voting opened for the new agreement on Wednesday 2 April 2025, and will close on Friday 5 April 2025 at 1500hrs.

Voting for the replacement agreement will by via independent Vero Voting, please contact Baptcare immediately if you do not receive an email or message from Vero Voting prior to Wednesday 2 April 2025.

Meercroft Care

Your ANMF Organiser was in the workplace recently and discussed the current workload concerns, in an effort to understand the concerns the ANMF has issued a Workload Survey which was sent to all Meercroft members, you are encouraged to complete a survey for each shift where you experience short staffing, a level of anxiety because you were unable to respond to the care needs of the residents and any other matter you feel impacted on you being able to provide high quality of care. The survey will remain open until Friday 11 April 2025. If you would like to speak to your organiser, please call 1800 001 241 and ask to speak to Nicki Hood.

South

Queen Victoria Care

The ANMF met with Queen Victoria Care on Thursday 6 March 2025, and Thursday 20 March 2025. At these meetings, we have been able to meet Queen Victoria Care bargaining representatives. We have also been able to present our LoC.

Queen Victoria Care will now formulate their responses to our claims for further discussion at our next meetings, currently scheduled for Tuesday 8 April 2025, and Tuesday 29 April 2025. Once we have received these responses, we will report back to you.

Wintringham

A majority of voters in the staff ballot voted to endorse the proposed Wintringham Collective Agreement 2024. Management has advised the ANMF that 443 employees voted, with 419 in favour of approving the agreement, from 1056 eligible voters. View the latest update.

Christian Homes Tasmania

As part of the Enterprise Agreement bargaining process, Christian Homes Tasmania (CHT) has sent the ANMF through a draft Enterprise Bargaining Agreement. View the latest update.

Updates are correct as of 2 April 2025.
Authorised by Emily Shepherd, ANMF Tasmanian Branch Secretary