Offer to academic and general staff
Thursday, August 28th, 2003An offer has been made today to academic and general staff to settle Round 4 of enterprise bargaining.
The offer has been made to staff via the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) which represents academic and general staff in the enterprise bargaining process.
As you may be aware, the current Enterprise Agreement for academic and general staff expired on 30 June 2003. In addition the university recently settled the first Round 4 enterprise agreement with a number of unions that represent trades and services (building, metal trades, grounds and gardening) staff.
The university’s proposal includes:
- a salary increase of 14.8% compounded;
- “roll over” of the majority of existing provisions; and
- some changes to existing provisions developed by the university’s enterprise bargaining team in response to feedback from university staff.
The university is also foreshadowing the possible insertion of clauses to enable the university to successfully attract the maximum available quantum of Federal Government funding pursuant to the recent Government announcements under “Backing Australia’s Future“.
In order to respond to proposals from the NTEU, the university reserves the right to modify its position in the course of negotiations.