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Summer 2008

RHH Staff Fight Excessive Workloads

LIKE most workers in the Health and Community Service Industry, food service officers and hospital aides at the Royal Hobart Hospital (RHH) have continually been expected to pick up additional duties on top of their already excessive workloads.

RHH food services have picked up many outside contracts and now cater for places such as Nursing Homes and Mental Health Facilities.

Additionally, the new Food Safe laws have also added excessive strain to their workload.

RHH hospital aides are continually given more duties and when RHH management recently advised that they would have to pick up additional duties associated with cleaning patient pantries, HACSU members said 'enough is enough'.

As result, RHH hospital aides implemented a ban on cleaning patient pantries after many attempts to get RHH management to take this issue seriously.

RHH management's response was to propose that food service officers pick up these additional duties.

RHH hospital aides and food service officers have stood together and said that neither will pick up these duties until additional resources are provided.

The bans remain in place permanently or until additional resources are provided.