It's time for - The Police Association Victoria

The key elements
to our claim:
The industrial action strategy
1. members do not provide information or advice other than in an operational context
to other government departments or agencies, including meeting with those
departments and agencies
2. members ban the preparation and provision of statistical information to the
Victoria Police Force, Force management or the Government, including completion
of MAS/time attrition sheets.
3. members not to attend Supreme or Country courts as informants or witnesses
other than in reply to a subpoena.
4. members not to serve subpoenas or transport witnesses for the Office
of Public Prosecutions.
5. members shall not volunteer to perform voluntary duties under clause 11
of the Victoria Police Workplace Agreement 2007.
6. members to ban the use of email.
7. members not to take receipt of speed camera films at police stations.
8. members who are not actively engaged in response duties to attend at locations where
fixed speed and red light cameras or mobile speed camera cars are in place and activate
flashing lights on their vehicles for periods of up to 15 minutes at a time.
If endorsed in the secret ballot, industrial action will begin in June.
Where to from here?
Before the action can be implemented, the law requires a postal ballot of all members.
It is vital that members vote in the ballot. We must send a powerful message to the
Government that we will not allow our rights and our careers to be trampled on.
Now it is time to step up again. Make sure you vote when you receive the ballot paper.
Send an unmistakable message that the Government offer is just not good enough.
We strongly encourage all members to tick
YES and turn your solidarity shown at
Dallas Brooks Centre into Action!
> > No trade-offs
> > Fair and reasonable base salary increase
across all ranks averaging 4.5 per cent
per annum
> > Recognition of work-value
improvements for Sergeants and Senior
Sergeants
> > Access to a new top LSC increment for
all Senior Constables
> > Improvements in shift and weekend
penalties
> > Increases to all expense and salaryrelated
allowances
> > Better rostering
> > Other improvements to conditions that
recognise the needs of modern policing
What they
have offered:
> > Pay ‘offer’ of 2.5 per cent per annum
for four years (well below the current
inflation rate, meaning police pay will
go backwards under this offer)
> > In return for this pay ‘offer’ our members
are being asked to give up a raft of
conditions, including:
> > Possible termination of employment
of members who can no longer qualify
at OSTT
> > Members have no say if employer
decides to unilaterally determine shift
lengths of between 6 and 12 hours
> > Accident make-up pay reduced from
104 weeks to 52 weeks
> > Reduced entitlements to excess night
work by excluding overtime from night
work (penalty rate) definitions
> > Weekend ‘unsociable’ penalty rate
to increase by six cents an hour
> > Abolition of a number of allowances
for specialist police (e.g. airwing and
covert members)
> > No increase in expense-related
allowances during the life of the
agreement
The Police Association Victoria Journal May 2011
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