Wages frozen: employees told to wait

16 May, 2022

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Queensland Catholic employers seeking to freeze school officer wages despite the deepening cost of living crisis, with teachers likely to follow.

School officers and services staff should have received a wage increase from 1 May 2022 with teachers scheduled for an increase from 1 July 2022.

Instead, Queensland Catholic employers’ advised school officers and services staff they would have to wait for their 2022 wage increase.

IEU-QNT Branch Secretary Terry Burke said the employer announcement came without any consultation with our union.

Employers simply indifferent

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