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This cause started out to support the salary packaging campaign, but we are broadening it for our general SACS campaign to achieve recognition for the workers. Below is a summing up of the previous campaign.
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A BIG thank you to everyone who got active during this campaign, sending the protest email, contacting their political reps and urging them to do the right thing. Action works!
You can find a summing up of this campaign in the media posts below or you can go right here: "And now onto the next issue for social and community services workers"
Background to this campaign
As a result of recommendations by a Howard Government Ministerial Taskforce on Child Support back in May 2005, a number of changes are being made to the way that income is calculated by Centrelink for the purpose of determining Family Assistance payments.
These changes will have an effect on SACS workers who utilise salary packaging because of the Public Benevolent Institution (PBI) status of their employer.
As we know salary packaging is very prevalent in the SACS sector so the changes proposed are likely to adversely affect many workers in our sector.
Read more and get active here: http://www.asu.asn.au/media/sacs/20080605_salpack.html
1. SACS workers are poorly paid for the work they do
2. Decisions undermining the pay of SACS workers further should be reversed
3. Get active by following the link in the extended info section below!