{"id":245,"date":"2009-01-25T23:46:54","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T13:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changelist.net\/monashwellbeing\/?p=245"},"modified":"2011-09-30T09:35:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T23:35:08","slug":"monash-university-enterprise-agreement-academic-and-professional-staff-2009-approval-by-fair-work-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/2009\/01\/25\/monash-university-enterprise-agreement-academic-and-professional-staff-2009-approval-by-fair-work-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Monash University Enterprise Agreement (Academic and Professional Staff) 2009 &#8211; approval by Fair Work Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ebarticletext\">\n<p>A message to all academic and professional staff at all  Australian campuses from Professor Adam Shoemaker, Deputy  Vice-Chancellor (Education) and Mr Peter Marshall, Vice-President  (Administration)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monash University Enterprise Agreement (Academic and Professional Staff) 2009 &#8211; approval by Fair Work Australia<\/strong>We are pleased to advise that the Monash University Enterprise  Agreement (Academic and Professional Staff) 2009 has now been approved  by Deputy President Hamilton of Fair Work Australia to commence  operation from 29 January 2010.  This follows the overwhelming approval  of the Agreement in the staff ballot conducted from 15-18 December 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The implementation of the Agreement will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Payment of salary increases of 16.5% over the life of the  Agreement, including an immediate 1.5% salary increase effective from 7  November 2009;<\/li>\n<li>An increase in casual loadings for academic and professional  staff to 24% from 30 January 2010 and a further increase to 25% in 2011;<\/li>\n<li>Improvements in conditions applying to sessional (Teaching  Associate) staff with regard to access to facilities and resources,  professional development, opportunities to apply for internal vacancies  and grant funding, and initial induction;<\/li>\n<li>Introduction of a number of Early Career Development Fellowships for eligible sessional (Teaching Associate) staff<\/li>\n<li>Improvements in parental and carer&#8217;s leave entitlements; and<\/li>\n<li>Introduction of continuing (contingent funded) employment for qualifying fixed-term research-only staff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, until 29 January 2010, the current Monash University  Enterprise Agreement (Academic and General Staff) 2005 remains in  operation. Work has commenced to process the payment of the 1.5% pay  increase to eligible staff (backdated to 7 November 2009), and advice  will be provided in the near future regarding the date on which the  increase and back-pay will be paid.<\/p>\n<p>We would once again like to thank the academic and professional  staff of the university for their support of the Agreement and look  forward to working with the NTEU in implementing its provisions.  The  negotiation of a replacement agreement for the Monash University  Enterprise Agreement (Trades and Services Staff &#8211; Building and Metal  Trades Staff and Grounds and Gardening Staff) 2005 is continuing.<\/p>\n<p>Should you require any further information or assistance  regarding the new Agreement, please contact the staff of the Workplace  Relations Branch on extension 29661 or via e-mail to <a href=\"mailto:ebfeedback@adm.monash.edu.au\">ebfeedback@adm.monash.edu.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A message to all academic and professional staff at all Australian campuses from Professor Adam Shoemaker, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) and Mr Peter Marshall, Vice-President (Administration) Monash University Enterprise Agreement (Academic and Professional Staff) 2009 &#8211; approval by Fair Work AustraliaWe are pleased to advise that the Monash University Enterprise Agreement (Academic and Professional Staff) 2009 [&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\/245"}],"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=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/enterprise-bargaining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}