AMA VICDOC Winter 2025 - Magazine - Page 77
A M AV I C SO C I A L S
Maria Boulton
Thank you Dr Haikerwal
for your wonderful
contributions to our
community. Thank you
too for mentoring so
many of us.
agreement to resolve
the proceedings for $175
million (inclusive of costs).
AMA Victoria
In the period from March
2021, a number of class
action proceedings
were commenced in the
Federal Court of Australia
relating to alleged unpaid
unrostered overtime
worked by doctors in
training employed
in Victoria.
The agreement has been
reached on a whole-ofsector basis and captures
all existing and potential
historical claims against
one or more of the 36
Victorian Public Health
Services covered by
the Doctors in Training
Enterprise Agreement.
Steps are currently
being taken to bring an
application for approval of
the in-principle agreement
before the Federal Court.
With the benefit of a
mediation before the
Honourable Patricia A
Bergin AO SC, the parties
are pleased to have
reached an in-principle
If you haven't yet signed
up for the class action,
you can register on a
confidential basis with
Gordon Legal if you have
worked as a Doctor in
Training in Victoria at any
time since January 2015:
https://content.isentia.
io/?url=https://www.smh.
com.au/national/victoria/
exhausted-junior-doctorswho-didn-t-claim-overtimewin-175m-in-backpay20250313-p5lj9l.html&ke
y=1213dbc714ce665352ef
d4165e3443b6&ver=1&m
id=1168916095
It doesn’t cost anything
to register or to find out
whether you might be
entitled to make a claim
for your overtime.
AMA Victoria thanks
Hayden Stevens &
Associates and Gordon
Legal for their hard
work achieving this inprinciple agreement.
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