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Vote yes to the 2024-28 Victorian Public Sector Mental Health Services Enterprise Agreement

ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ recommends you VOTE YES in the Vero Voting electronic ballot between 9am Friday 19 December to 5pm Tuesday 23 December 2025.

The statewide members meeting on 28 March 2025 voted to endorse the Allan Government’s revised offer. The proposed enterprise agreement includes 47 relevant parity claims from the general public sector nurses agreement, including pay parity between mental health nurses’ and the general nurses’ outcome.

The Agreement includes the majority of members’ specific mental health nursing claims. You now need to VOTE YES to formalise the EBA and receive the agreement’s benefits. If the majority of employees at your employer vote NO, that employer will be removed from the agreement and none of the benefits of the 2024-28 EBA will apply to their employees.

More details are available below:

• Mental health public sector EBA allowances table [PDF]
• Mental health public sector EBA summary booklet [PDF]
• Mental health public sector EBA wage rates comparison to general [PDF]
• Mental health public sector EBA weekly and hourly rates wage table [PDF]
• Campaign updates

Campaign updates Ballot timeline

The electronic ballot will be conducted by independent ballot agent Vero Voting on behalf of employers.

All nurses covered by the agreement, including casuals, will be eligible to vote on the question: ‘Do you vote in favour of the Victorian Public Mental Health Services Enterprise Agreement 2024-2028?’

Thursday 11 December - Thursday 18 December: 7-day access period to provide access to the final proposed enterprise agreement and a summary of key changes document.

Friday 19 December, 9am - Tuesday 23 December at 5pm: ballot open. All employees will receive the voting link via your work email from Vero Voting.

Wednesday 24 December: the results will be declared and if approved, an application will be made in early January, to the Fair Work Commission for final approval of the 2024-2028 EBA.

View the Vote Yes flier [PDF]

Western Health

ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ (Vic Branch) has been advised of an error with Western Health not providing all eligible employees with the agreement, summary of changes and voting information at least seven days prior to the scheduled start of the ballot, as required by the Fair Work Act.

This delay means employees of Western Health will not be able to cast their vote from Friday 19 December as planned.

The new ballot dates for Western Health are:

Open: 9:00am, Saturday, 27 December 2025

Close: 5:00pm, Wednesday 31 December 2025.

The Western Health ballot will be declared on 2 January.