{"id":173,"date":"2004-04-21T23:17:52","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T13:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changelist.net\/monashwellbeing\/?p=173"},"modified":"2011-09-30T09:36:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T23:36:44","slug":"heads-of-agreement-clauses-agreed-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/2004\/04\/21\/heads-of-agreement-clauses-agreed-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Heads of Agreement clauses agreed to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a long and productive meeting on 21 April, significant progress  was made in the negotiations at Monash. Heads of Agreement clauses were  agreed relating to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> parental leave<\/li>\n<li> academic workloads<\/li>\n<li> grievance procedures<\/li>\n<li> performance management for general staff<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am particularly pleased with the outcome  on parental leave where the parties have agreed on a new standard for  Monash of 14 weeks paid leave on normal salary and a further 38 weeks  leave paid at 60 per cent of normal salary. This benefit can, of course,  only be available to staff following final certification of the  agreement.<\/p>\n<p>In recognition of the progress being made, the university  has also increased its salary offer to a compounded salary increase of  16.5 per cent (including the 2 per cent administrative increase already  paid). Based on the information I have before me, this is currently the  highest salary offer made to staff of Victorian universities.<\/p>\n<p>I am pleased that negotiations are proceeding in a positive  and constructive manner and I hope that this will continue so that this  round of enterprise bargaining can be quickly brought to conclusion and  staff can then access the benefits of the new agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Further details will be available on this page in the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long and productive meeting on 21 April, significant progress was made in the negotiations at Monash. Heads of Agreement clauses were agreed relating to: parental leave academic workloads grievance procedures performance management for general staff I am particularly pleased with the outcome on parental leave where the parties have agreed on a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1426,121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}