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Ambulance Employees Australia - Victoria (AEAV)

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Alarming, yet business as usual - State of the public sector

The UWU Strategic Power team put together a report from the June...

Wages policy and public sector priorities

The Victorian Government has finally released its wages policy and public sector...

UWU - Voice to Parliament

The Uluru Statement from the Heart has long been supported by members...

UWU/AEAV International Women’s Day event on March 8

In every state and across every industry, women workers in Australia are...

Welcome Back

Happy New Year to all our members. We hope that everyone has...

Full Penalties Unpaid at ESTA

On the 11th of October 2022 the AEAV wrote to ESTA to...

Underpayments at AV: Correspondence from the Minister for Health and Ambulance Services

Please follow the link HERE to read correspondence from the Minister for...

Response to Trevor Weston ABC interview

On the 6th of August 2022 a Mildura netballer lay on the...

DEPARTURE OF AV CHAIR NECESSARY TO CHANGE CULTURE

The AEAV welcomes the news today that Ken Lay has tendered his...

Ambulance Active - Winter 2022

Are ambulance performance indicators fit for purpose? Victorian’s have recently seen their...

ESTA Bargaining - Have Your Say

Letter to Dept of Health re: Rosters Wage Theft

On the 13th of July, the union wrote to the Department of...

Ambulance Victoria Needs a Performance Review

Ambulance Employees Australia Victoria (AEAV) is calling for an independent review of...

AV MOU – Surge scale back

After recent pressure regarding AV’s continued reliance on the surge workforce, AV...

Recruitment Processes – will they ever learn?

In late 2021 the AEAV commenced a grievance on behalf of a...

ESTA MOU Update

The current ESTA MOU covering pandemic demand response initiatives expires at the...

Gippsland A/RD Email re Clearing times

On Tuesday 21 June 2022 the A/RD for Gippsland Ross Salathiel, sent...

8/6 Dual Pandemic Crewing - Is It Working?

AEAV members continue to raise concerns about the 8/6 dual paramedic crewing...

ESTA Capability & Service Review Published

Mr. Graham Ashton’s Capability and Service Review of ESTA has been published...

MOU Extension

Interim CEO Stephen Leane has called for a series of meetings to...

Current Worksafe Incidents

AV – Clearing hospital KPI In March 2022 we made a notification...

AEAV refuses to apologise for holding AV Exec to account

In March 2022 the AEAV wrote to the AV Board calling for...

Commencing Practice - Request for Mercer Review

**Update – You can read Ambulance Victoria’s dismissive response to the union’s...

FTS Win External Review

Recently the Financial Transactional Services (FTS) team members signed a petition asking...

NPT Log of Claims - #1

Negotiations for the National Patient Transport 2022 enterprise agreement opened on the...

Political leaders dodge accountability for health system failures

It seems inconceivable that after more than 2 years of everyone focusing...

AEAV Letter to Minister for Health

On the 14th of April 2022, AEAV wrote to the Minister for...

ESTA Data Access

The union has worked through 13 of the 37 data set requests...

Final Report of the Independent Review into Workplace Equality in Ambulance Victoria

Volume 1: Final Report of the Independent Review into Workplace Equality in...

Women in Leadership Scholarship

CAA Women in Leadership Scholarship 2022 information The Women in Leadership Working...

Fleet Maintenance Officers Getting It Done!

Check out this wrecked ambulance Fleet Maintenance Officer (FMO) David Berry from...

ANOTHER INDEPENDENT REVIEW ANOTHER LINE IN THE SAND

Written by Darren Law for Ambulance Active I recently resigned as a...

AV VACIS KPI is unrealistic and unsafe

Since 2015 AV have been pushing arbitrarily set KPI’s in an effort...

PCU Harm Continues Over 3 Months After VEOHRC Outcomes

In recent months the AEAV has been advocating for numerous members who...

Interrupted VACIS

Members have had questions about their rights when they’re called to another...

AEAV Wins Recruitment Concession by AV

After years of Ambulance Victoria (AV) failing many of its staff with...

Free Trauma Training Opportunity

Phoenix Australia, affiliated with the University of Melbourne, is offering training in...

Best Practice Not Applied To Recruitment Process

AEAV is challenging Ambulance Victoria’s recruitment processes and calling out the service...

Letter to Health Minister re Surge Workforce

On the 24th of December 2021, AEAV wrote to the Health Minister,...

Code Brown - AV Close Contacts to Stay Home

Code Brown will come into force at midday on Wednesday for all...

Spares Rest Break Grievance

The AEAV has pursued a grievance with Ambulance Victoria that paramedics working...

ESTA MOU

On Wednesday the 15th of December 2021, AEAV Secretary Brett Adie signed...

ESTA External Review - AEAV Submission

On the 15th of December 2021, AEAV made a submission to the...

No Surge Payment for NEPT

AEAV wrote to the Health Minister, Martin Foley to express nonemergency patient...

Spares Grievance

Ambulance Victoria has finally responded to a letter AEAV sent in October...

Ambulance Active

Edition 26 of the Australian Council of Ambulance Unions official journal Ambulance...

ESTA Choose Staff for Independent Review Consultation

PwC and Mr. Graham Ashton are holding online consultations with 90 ESTA...

Ambulance Victoria Recruitment Process Failing Staff

On the 26th of November 2021, AEAV wrote to Ambulance Victoria CEO,...

Unreasonable Expectations in the ALS TM Exam

This week the union has heard from a number of distressed members...

Victorian Budget Proposal

Ambulance Employees Australia – Victoria (AEAV) and the United Workers Union (UWU)...

Sorry Not Enough - Immediate Reform Needed in Ambulance Victoria

Ambulance Victoria owes its staff a better response than an apology and...

Report Highlights Need for Sweeping Ambulance Victoria Cultural Reforms

A damning report released today that has found bullying, discrimination, victimisation and...

Report Expected to Highlight Need for Fundamental Ambulance Victoria Cultural Reforms

A detailed report that is expected to find bullying, discrimination, victimisation and...

AV People Matter Survey & Data Manipulation

Ambulance Victoria survey results have laid bare the extent of the organisations...

Certificate of Professional Indemnity Insurance

AEAV Paramedic Members enjoy the comfort of professional indemnity insurance as required...

ESTA UCC Update - 18 Nov 2021

Delegates Roger Parker and Sharyne Doensen attended the ESTA Consultative Committee (UCC)...

AEAV Letter to Emergency Services Minister

On the 19th of November 2021, AEAV wrote to the Minister of...

Meeting with PwC

On the 18th of November 2021, AEAV Delegates Sharyne Doensen and Roger...

Response to ESTA Pandemic Proposal

ESTA has been chronically understaffed for many years, and could have coped...

Frontline Health Care Workers: We Salute You!

The last 18 months have stretched us all, in ways never conceived....

Report: Maintaining Service Capacity During COVID-19

OzSAGE, a panel of experts across public health, recently delivered a report...

Letter regarding NETCOMM only call takers

Today the AEAV wrote to the Emergency Telecommunications Authority (ESTA) regarding its...

Letter to Ambulance Victoria regarding 10 hour rest periods

Today the AEAV wrote to Ambulance Victoria (AV), to raise concerns and...

Letter to the Minister for Health regarding Hospital Surge Support Allowance for private NEPT officers

Today the AEAV wrote to the Health Minister, Martin Foley, about the...

ESTA Initiatives Consultation Meeting

Delegate Sharyne Doensen (Tally Ho) and AEAV officials met with ESTA on...

ESTA Service Capability Review

The Minister for Emergency Services Hon. Jaclyn Symes has called for a...

Hospital Surge Support Allowance

The Victorian Government is delivering support to paramedics and frontline workers in...

Stretched to Breaking Point, then Covid-19

AEAV Secretary Brett Adie spoke to Nicole Chvastek on ABC Radio about...

COVID-19 Positive Patient Notification

AV recently announced the implementation of an automated notification system for when...

AEAV Response to draft outline for LM Single Officer and ACO Training Program 'Spares' Trial

On September 27, 2021 AEAV wrote to Ambulance Victoria’s Implementation Lead, Huw...

AV Response Psychometric Testing Overall Outcome Scores

We recently wrote to AV regarding changes to the MICA Selection and...

FTS classification re-evaluation

AEAV has been supporting members at the Financial Transactional Services (FTS) branch...

AV response regarding 'For Cause' AOD testing

Recently we wrote to AV to express our concerns surrounding the processes...

Bendigo and Kangaroo Flat Roster Change

Recently, AV wrote to staff at Bendigo and Kangaroo Flat staff with...

Covid Warning Finally Prioritises Paramedics’ Safety

Victorian paramedics’ safety will no longer be put at greater risk on...

Consultation - Roster Changes - Fact Sheet

If you are covered by the Ambulance Victoria Enterprise Agreement 2020, Ambulance...

MICA Selection Process

The AEAV have written to AV to provide feedback on changes to...

Forthcoming AEAV Member Survey

The AEAV are conducting an opinion survey of members to inform and...

AEAV email to DHHS regarding COVID-19 exposure for Paramedics

In recent days we have heard in the media of an AV...

AEAV response to Medium Acuity Transport Service (MATS)

The AEAV has written to AV to confirm that qualified paramedics who...

'For Cause' testing for AOD

Following the recent unjustified targeting of an AEAV member we have again...

Changes to Air Ambulance Victoria

On August 20, 2021 the AEAV wrote to Ambulance Victoria on behalf...

AVMA Negotiations Update

The Ambulance Victoria Management and Administrative Agreement is currently being negotiated. Discussions...

Work Stress Factsheet

Workplace stress is a serious workplace hazard that can particularly affect workers...

Raise funds for the Code9 Foundation

The Code 9 Foundation supports first responders and Triple 0 call takers...

Lack of consultation at Air Ambulance Victoria

We recently wrote to Ambulance Victoria regarding proposed changes to the branch...

AV and government “gaslighting” to deflect from real cause of demand issues

In recent weeks we have heard the same old tired story from...

AV continues conducting invasive AOD testing without disclosing reasons

Earlier this month AV targeted an AEAV member and threatened the member...

Payrises - ESTA Grandparented Employee's

The AEAV met with ESTA last Wednesday to discuss pay increases for...

Mental Health Action Plan

We recently wrote to Ambulance Victoria regarding their Mental Health Action Plan....

AEAV Bulletin - 5 August 2021

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AEAV Bulletin - 14 July 2021

View this email in your browser eBulletin 14 July 2021 On Friday...

MICA Selection & Internship Program

The AEAV will consult with members regarding the changes to MICA selection...

Proposed Medium Acuity Transport Services (MATS) Program

The AEAV met recently with AV, where they announced their intention to...

Parliamentary Secretary’s Emergency Demand Consultative and Advisory Forum

On Thursday the 29th of June 2021, AEAV along with other health...

Member wins against AHPRA

Last year AEAV supported our member Rob Paton, who had his Paramedic...

Ambulance Victoria staff kept in the dark on their work value

Background For many years Ambulance Victoria has used the Mercer CED Job...

ESTA UCC - July 2021

The most recent ESTA Consultative Committee was held on 27 July 2021....

Ambulance Victoria COVID vaccination message

The below message was provided to us by Ambulance Victoria to disseminate...

VEOHRC Review Update

All the submissions are now in, interviews are done and VEOHRC seems...