{"id":7455,"date":"2020-03-05T09:40:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T22:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/?p=7455"},"modified":"2025-07-28T13:59:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T03:59:26","slug":"victorian-ambulance-agreement-action-on-fair-pay-safety-and-exposure-to-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/archive\/victorian-ambulance-agreement-action-on-fair-pay-safety-and-exposure-to-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorian Ambulance Agreement: Action on fair pay, safety and exposure to drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MEDIA RELEASE<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><b>Victorian Ambulance Agreement: Action on fair pay, safety and exposure to drugs <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">The Ambulance Employees Australia Victoria (AEAV) has today reached in-principle agreement with Ambulance Victoria on a new enterprise agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Key concessions from Ambulance Victoria include commitments to address the AEAV key claims including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p4\">\u00a0Fair pay increases that keep Victorian paramedics the best paid in the country<\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\">Pay parity for undervalued Ambulance Victoria employees<\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\">Paramedics not being forced to work alone<\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\">Introduction of best practice drug testing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p3\">Paramedic and AEAV State Councillor Brett Adie said AEAV members were pleased the Victorian Government had agreed to take action on all outstanding claims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cThere is still much work to be done to ensure a safe working environment for all paramedics, especially those in rural areas,\u201d Mr Adie said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cAmbulance Victoria has finally acknowledged the risk of environmental exposure to drugs such as ketamine and committed to working with us to ensure we can move towards best practice testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cThis Enterprise Agreement will allow us to regain some of the work conditions lost over the last few years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cFor eight years, rural paramedics have been at risk of being forced to work on their own in an unsafe environment, and we think this agreement is a step towards protecting those vulnerable members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Ambulance Employees Australia Victoria (AEAV) is a section of the United Workers Union.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><b>ENDS <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Media Contact: <\/b>1300 898 633, <span class=\"s2\">media@unitedworkers.org.au <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEDIA RELEASE &nbsp; Victorian Ambulance Agreement: Action on fair pay, safety and exposure to drugs The Ambulance Employees Australia Victoria (AEAV) has today reached in-principle agreement with Ambulance Victoria on a new enterprise&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":6438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-7455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","tag-ambulance-paramedics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65099,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455\/revisions\/65099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}