Your United Services Union delegates have begun negotiations with management on your new Enterprise Award. The USU has tabled your log of claims.

Your USU Claims Include:

  • 3% wage increase each year over the life of the agreement
  • 5% buffer above compulsory employee contribution to be maintained in perpetuity
  • LAHFHA to be changed to mirror 15.3.1
  • All allowances to increase in line with agreed wage increases
  • Disability Allowance to be made available to supervisors
  • Justice of the Peace Allowance to be provided
  • Duty Officer Allowance increase
  • Maternity leave to be increased for 9 to 14 weeks
  • Maternity Leave to be renamed Parental Leave to avoid possible discrimination
  • Insert WHS Committee make up and function
  • Insertion of Family Violence Leave Clause
  • Increase 15 minute timeframe to respond to on call

Managements Claims Include:

  • Amend definition of ordinary pay to exclude on call allowance
  • Cap Superannuation at 15%
  • Remove 15.1 Telephones
  • Amend 15.4 incidentals to exclude child care and relatives costs
  • Insert Exceptional Performance Allowance
  • Insert TIL Clause
  • Allow non-members to access Union Picnic Day
  • Amend Sick Leave clause 22.1.13 to remove oxymoron
  • Remove 22.1.3 Sick Leave
  • Amend 22.3.1 to allow employees to access annual leave prior to 12 months service
  • Allow all work groups to access shift work and increase allowance to 20%
  • Remove 22.3.4 Training and Budget Plan as this standards scheme no longer exists
  • Amend 35.2 Health and Wellbeing clause to reference ongoing update of strategy
  • Amend Part B Annexure to add age detail at levels T1 to T4

What has management has AGREED to from your log of claims?

  • Allowances to increase in line with agreed wage increases (includes Duty Officer Allowance)
  • Maternity Leave to be renamed Parental Leave to avoid discrimination

What has management REJECTED from your Log of Claims?

  • LAHFHA to be changed to mirror 15.3.1
  • Justice of the Peace Allowance to be provided
  • Disability Allowance to be made available to supervisors
  • Maternity leave to be increased for 9 to 14 weeks
  • Insert WHS Committee make up and function

What the USU has AGREED to from Management’s Claims?

  • Amend Sick Leave clause 22.1.13 to remove oxymoron
  • Amend 22.3.1 to allow employees to access annual leave prior to 12 months service
  • Remove 22.3.4 Training and Budget Plan as this standards scheme no longer exists
  • Amend 35.2 Health and Wellbeing clause to reference ongoing update of
  • Amend Part B Annexure to add age detail at levels T1 to T4

What has your Union REJECTED from Management’s Claims?

  • Amend definition of ordinary pay to exclude on call allowance
  • Cap Superannuation at 15%
  • Insert Exceptional Performance Allowance

What Items of their claim have management withdrawn due to your Union’s objections?

  • Remove 15.1 Telephones
  • Insert 15.16 Exceptional Performance Allowance
  • Amend 21 to allow non-members to access Union Picnic Day
  • Remove 22.1.3 Sick leave

What items are still under consideration?

  1. 3% wage increase each year over the life of the agreement
  2. 5% buffer above compulsory employee contribution to be maintained in perpetuity
  3. Insertion of TIL clause
  4. Amend 15.4 incidentals to exclude child care and relatives costs
  5. Maternity Leave to be renamed Parental Leave to avoid possible discrimination
  6. Insertion of Family Violence Leave Clause
  7. Increase 15 minute timeframe to respond to on call

Late claims from members recently submitted to management include

  • 7.2 Certificates and Licences: Inclusion/reimbursement of Drivers C Class License for all staff. Parity with RWCC and is required on all Job Descriptions
  • 2.2
  • 2.3 On call: Removal of the first 2 hours
  • 2 On Call: 1 Weeks additional leave for all on-call rostered staff.

These have yet to be discussed

In addition following conversations with your Union representatives;

Goldenfields management have made a commitment to pay out all outstanding TIL balances at overtime (rate yet to be agreed upon). This will allow the organisation to remove their ongoing financial liability without any financial disadvantage to members. This they hope will allow a TIL clause with clear directions on how members accumulate and expend any TIL beyond the current agreement.

Management have also agreed to create a formal WHS Committee.

If you require any further information please contact your Organiser Mick Jones on 0450 020 589 or your local delegates, Brendan and Jamie.