Victorian paramedics win pay rise

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Victorian paramedics are getting a pay rise.

Victorian paramedics are to receive a pay rise of up to $18,000 as part of a $54 million wage upgrade, after the state government accepted the role has become more difficult and complex in the past decade.

This month the Fair Work Commission heard evidence about the increase in skills and responsibilities paramedics have required over the past decade and found that "these changes constitute a significant net addition to work requirements".

The Ambulance Employees Association and government then entered a fair work conciliation to agree to a pay increase. Health minister Jill Hennessy said the government would accept all the recommendations because it valued the work paramedics did.

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