Public sector nurses and midwives have suspended industrial action following a new pay and conditions offer from the South Australian State Government that puts them on track to be among “the best paid in the nation”. The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation is seeking a 2.5 per cent pay increase per year over three years, extra incentives added to voluntary separation packages, paid overtime, extra professional development, new staffing structures and new classification structures. Nurses have been holding low key industrial action in pursuit of the claims including working to rule, after their previous enterprise bargaining agreement expired on September 1.
