MOCA 6 decision finalised

MOCA 6 is essentially the employment contract for all junior and senior doctors who work for Queensland Health and will operate until 30 June 2025. ASMOFQ first started negotiating MOCA 6 with Queensland Health back in March 2022.

The agreement will be certified shortly, at which time back pay from 1 July 2022 can be issued. 

Employees under MOCA 6 will now receive: 

• wage increases of 4%, 4% and 3% over the three years of MOCA 6 (back-paid to 1 July 2022) plus an additional up to 3% cost of living adjustment (COLA) payment for each year
• payment of overtime for many clinical scenarios no longer require prior approval from your supervisor or line manager (this applies to junior and senior doctors)
• stronger fatigue provisions, with improved access to 10 hour break between periods of work, fatigue leave and fatigue penalties 
• increased attraction and retention allowance for Rural Generalists, with the ability to progress to Level 27
• support for doctors with temporary or permanent disabilities or impairments in the workplace 
• review of fatigue of medical officers, and better reporting of fatigue
• Queensland Health will fund a project to review practicalities of implementing longer term contracts for junior doctors, and also appointing PHOs to permanent employment
• development of a workload management kit
• rostering improvements such as not being rostered on-call prior to periods of leave, better ]access to public holiday entitlements and any emergent changes to a roster must be put in writing to affected doctors
• medical students have been included and are now covered under MOCA 6

AMA Queensland and ASMOFQ will be hosting events to share information and answer questions about the new agreement.