Environment remote localities - are you being diddled?
18 July 2008, 9:38am
CPSU member’s partners working in remote localities raised the issue that they are not being paid the correct entitlement where they both work for the APS and have dependent children.
Currently DEWHA are saying that if an employee and their APS employed partner have dependent children they are only entitled to each receive the non-dependent rate. This is not what your CA says. If you are - or have been - in this situation at any time since July 2006 you will be losing out on thousands of dollars.
Your rights
The CA says, “If an employee’s spouse/partner is in receipt of the with dependents rate of Remote Localities Allowance (either from DEH, or equivalent arrangements from another APS agency) the amount of Remote Localities Allowance payable to the employee shall be that applicable to an employee without dependants.”
This means that if you and your partner work for the APS one of you should receive the dependent rate and the other receive the non-dependent rate.
Lets get this fixed
The CPSU is asking all members affected by this issue to let us know who you are so we can escalate this issue on your behalf with DEWHA management. Please complete our short online survey.
