{"id":188,"date":"2004-09-14T23:23:14","date_gmt":"2004-09-14T13:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changelist.net\/monashwellbeing\/?p=188"},"modified":"2011-09-30T09:36:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T23:36:19","slug":"update-14-september-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/2004\/09\/14\/update-14-september-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Update &#8211; 14 September 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Strike action<\/h3>\n<p>As you may be aware, recent negotiations over the enterprise  agreement have failed to secure an agreement between Monash University  and the NTEU particularly on the quantum or agreed salary increase. As a  result the NTEU have advise they will be undertaking strike action on  Thursday the 16th September. Staff were advised of this in a global email from Professor Alan Lindsay on the 13th September 2004.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pay arrangements for staff who DO NOT participate in strike action<\/strong><br \/>\nThe University has a legal obligation to comply with the <em>Workplace Relations Act <\/em>1996. In particular, section 187AA of the <em>Act <\/em>prohibits  an employer from making a payment to an employee in relation to a  period during which the employee engaged in industrial action<\/p>\n<p>As the University is prohibited from paying staff who engage in industrial action on Thursday 16th September, those staff who <strong>DO NOT <\/strong>participate in industrial action are required to notify the University by Friday 24th September on the appropriate form below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">Form for Staff who did not participate in industrial action (MSWord)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">Guidelines for staff not participating in industrial action (MSWord)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Guidelines in relation to picket lines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is anticipated that there will be picket lines at the  entrances to campuses of the University on Thursday 16th September. The  following guidelines have been prepared in order to assist staff members  who do not participate in the industrial action to deal with picket  lines. It should be noted that these guidelines have not been agreed  with the NTEU but the university has distributed similar guidelines on  previous days of strike action. They are based on guidelines issued by  other universities and reflect common practice for picket line  arrangements generally.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">Guidelines to assist staff in relation to picket lines (MSWord)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">Hints for dealing with picket lines at Clayton campus (MSWord)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>OHS&amp;E Guidelines<\/h3>\n<p>The OHS&amp;E Unit has produced guidelines to address issues resulting from a day of industrial action.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">OHS&amp;E Guidelines (MSWord)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strike action As you may be aware, recent negotiations over the enterprise agreement have failed to secure an agreement between Monash University and the NTEU particularly on the quantum or agreed salary increase. As a result the NTEU have advise they will be undertaking strike action on Thursday the 16th September. Staff were advised of [&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\/188"}],"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=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}