NSWNMA - The New South Wales Nurses and Midwives’ Association

Know Your Rights

The New South Wales Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) is the registered union for all nurses and midwives in New South Wales.
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Know Your Rights

It’s time to exercise your rights. Download these guides to know more about your legal rights in your Award (member login to Member Central is required for access).

General guides

Data privacy

Daylight saving

Redeployment

Unfair dismissal

COVID-19 & Workers’ Compensation*

The Incremental Pay Scale

Employer investigations, fact-finding interviews and procedural fairness

How to have a difficult discussion with your manager

Public Health System Nurses and Midwives

Recruitment and retention incentives for rural nurses and midwives

Public Holidays

COVID-19 and leave entitlements

Top need to know Award Clauses

Take your breaks

Working 12 hour shifts

Continuing Education Allowance

In-Charge Allowance

On-Call Allowance

Are you eligible to be a CNS?

Safe Staffing & Unplanned Absences

Roster Waivers

Join over 80,000 nurses and midwives in NSW by becoming a valued member today.

You’ll automatically become a member of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation

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