Tuesday, 18 June 2024

Southern Metropolitan Region

Georgie CROZIER (Southern Metropolitan) (14:09): (921) My constituency question is for the attention of the Minister for Ambulance Services, and it is in relation to the Ambulance Victoria payroll department. My constituent Peter wrote to me:

My daughter, now a single mum, through no choice of her own, a MICA paramedic, single responder is now $3,200 out of pocket, because of the inability of the AV payroll department to properly record her shifts and apply the pay rates appropriate to those shifts and the hours of overtime that she has worked?

This situation is not a one-off aberration. It happens repeatedly.

This issue is ongoing for my constituent, who I followed it up with, asking if it had been resolved after he emailed me. The question I ask the minister therefore is: why are paramedics who are working long shifts and overtime being short-changed repeatedly by Ambulance Victoria failing to apply the appropriate rates of pay to which employees are entitled – or is there a real problem with cash flow in Ambulance Victoria, as has been previously reported?