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A pay agreement that the NSW government reached on 30 October will go towards salary packaging for more than 50,000 health workers and benefit small communities, according to the Health Services Union (HSU).
The agreement includes 100 percent salary packaging back-dated to 1 July.
HSU Secretary Gerard Hayes said that the pay agreement will help attract staff into the healthcare sector. “One of the issues over the past 12 years with minimum wage increases was it was hard to attract and retain staff,” Mr Hayes said…