Queensland strikes public sector pay agreements

The Queensland Government has announced that it has achieved in-principle enterprise agreements with key state public sector employee groups.

Those groups include:

• Queensland Health’s Medical Officer workforce, including junior and senior doctors, registrars and specialists who work across emergency departments, surgical and specialist wards, and other Queensland Health and Queensland Ambulance Service facilities.
• Staff of the newly formed department of Customer Services, Open Data and Small and Family Business, who provide customer service support.
• Queensland Police Service’s Protective Services, who provide security at sites such as state government buildings, courthouses, schools, and public transport infrastructure while working closely alongside Queensland Police Service officers.

The in-principle agreements — which, the Government says, are in line with the Government’s central wages policy and includes CPI-linked increases if inflation exceeds guaranteed rates — also ensure staff will receive backpay from 1 July 2025.

The development follows last week’s announcement of the finalisation of an enterprise agreement with the Queensland Police Service, which included a $8,000 retention incentive. 

“Travelling around Queensland I’ve seen first-hand public sector employees demonstrating their dedication to deliver services to the Queensland community,” said Deputy Premier, Minister for State Development, Infrastructure and Planning and Minister for Industrial Relations, Jarrod Bleijie.

“All agreements have secured wages policy pay rises, and reforms and protections that are important to each individual bargain as raised in negotiations.”