The role was created in response to the passing of “Gayle’s Law” in South Australia in 2017, which legislates that nurses in rural and remote areas must be accompanied by another worker when responding to medical callouts. They perform duties such as CPR, taking blood pressure and preparing IV fluids. InDaily understands many of the health service assistants have experience or qualifications in paramedicine, nursing and first aid. ![]() “It is our sincere hope that the RFDS will do the right thing and show that they value the critical work that the HSAs (health service assistants) do,” he said. ![]() He said following “unproductive” discussions, the union would this week lodge a formal underpayment of wages claim to the SA Employment Tribunal. HSU state branch secretary Billy Elrick told InDaily that union officials had first raised concerns with the RFDS about its payment of health service assistants in June last year. The assistants are currently employed under the 2020 Health Professionals and Support Services Award, but the union argues they should instead be paid at least $60,000 a year in accordance with the Ambulance Service Award. ![]() According to the Health Services Union (HSU), during the two weeks they are rostered to work each month, they are expected to respond to medical-related callouts outside of work hours without additional remuneration or penalty rates.
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