CWUVIC You will, within the next few days, be asked by Telstra to vote on their proposed Enterprise Agreement. Telstra is required by law to put their agreement out for a vote of all ‘affected’ employees, before it replaces the current EA – ‘affected’ employees means well over half of those voting are in fact not …
PROTECTED INDUSTRIAL ACTION – VOTE YES REMEMBER BALLOT CLOSES: WED 9TH SEP at 10am Do not be misled or feel threatened by management about taking lawful protected industrial action. This is your legal right under the Fair Work Act. Management have stated that “ Employees taking industrial action are not paid” This only occurs if …
Telstra wants everyone on its performance pay system because it claims that employees on “performance pay” are more productive. They have never advanced one skerrick of evidence to back that claim. Scratch the surface of this claim and what do we find? We find that in order to meet management decided unrealistic targets, employees work …
Read moreTelstra’s So-called Performance Based Pay System Is a Shonk!
What are they? 1. Movement To Performance Based Pay This has been Telstra’s ‘holy grail’ for many years. It’s the thin edge of the wedge (as is the forced redeployment issue). New employees and others will be forced into the so-called ‘Job Family’ section of the EA which is really about everyone being on Telstra’s …
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EBA negotiations with Telstra continue this week. We will be hoping, and expecting, Telstra will see sense over some of the proposals they have placed in a draft EA. This was highlighted in last week’s Victorian P&T/T&S newsletter.The Victorian branches have been conducting an online survey www.surveymonkey.com/s/TelstraEAHaveYourSay – your contributions are still welcome, if you …
ANNUAL REPORT TO MEMBERS 2015 It is with great pleasure that I present the 2015 Branch Annual Report, my first as Branch Secretary, and with a great deal of positive news (tempered with some negative aspects) to expand on. Despite this, there are some significant threats on the horizon, but we firstly need to look …
It is time to exercise your right to take protected action against your employer. Today the FWC has issued an order for Protected Industrial Action. ESTA did not object to the application. Postal voting will commence once the lists of employees has been sent from ESTA to the AEC and members lists are sent to …
We are moving towards the end of the bargaining period as all indications seem to demonstrate that Telstra is preparing a draft EBA to go out to employees for a vote. However, as reported previously there is no agreement on some issues Telstra wishes to have included in the EBA. Members on our regular EBA …
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