This is the home page for agencies within the Department of Human Services - Centrelink, Medicare, the Child Support Agency, CRS Australia and Australian Hearing.
Your CPSU safety team in DHS- 7 February 2012 Your CPSU endorsed candidates are seeking your support to be elected to the new DHS National Health & Safety Committee.
Medicare Shift workers are watching payroll like hawks - 2 February 2012 DHS Medicare shift workers have had enough and the union prepares to take urgent action. Since the introduction of ESSentials pay system, shift workers must check and double check their penalty payments as payments are rarely correct.
Medicare PBS staff give thumbs down to national management - 30 January 2012 Over eighty PBS staff completed the CPSU online survey to provide their views on national management’s performance over the 2011 December reduced activity period.
Centrelink B.I.staff VOTE on urgent action plan - 19 January 2012 CPSU delegates are calling on all B.I. staff to vote and support an urgent action plan to investigate, then take all necessary actions to stop national management’s continued serious non-compliance when it comes to staff rights and entitlements.
PBS Medicare "December Debacle" - 11 January 2012 It time to put a stop to ‘management on the run’ in PBS operations which, once again, has led to many staff having to make unnecessary sacrifices.
Centrelink Work Level Standards Work Level Standards (WLS) describe the work requirements for each classification and the duties to be performed in an Australian Public Service (APS) agency. They provide the criteria which distinguish between different work levels in an employment group. [read more]