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Paid foster care under new deal for non-profit organisation

In what's believed to be a first, more than 300 workers employed in St Vincent de Paul's NSW community services division will be entitled to two weeks paid foster care leave under a proposed new collective agreement. But the ASU, while welcoming some improvements to benefits, is considering opposing the deal because it is unhappy about other provisions and the process by which the organisation made it.