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Without Prejudice<br />
Legislative Assembly Members' Staff Enterprise Agreement 2010-2011<br />
The Government's Position (with staff response in bullet points):<br />
1. Quantum of Pay Increase<br />
2.5% increase from 1 July 2010 plus a $650 sign-on bonus to eligible employees.<br />
• Agreed<br />
2. Duration of Agreement<br />
Short-term Agreement terminating on 30 June 2011.<br />
o Agreed<br />
3. Termination Payments<br />
In accordance with the Auditor General report requirements wording of the current<br />
Agreement clause 13.2 to be revisited and clarified.<br />
o The proposed changes to reduce eligibility for termination payments for<br />
Members' staff will have a significant human toll, especially given that<br />
roughly 1/3 of staff are likely to become unemployed at any given election.<br />
These newly unemployed members- many who would have had a<br />
reasonable expectation of ongoing employment after the election are told<br />
on election night that their services are no longer needed. In these cases,<br />
with no payment in lieu of notice or termination payment, staff only have<br />
their annual leave pay out to make ends meet until they are able to find<br />
new work. This situation is unacceptable to staff.<br />
e Even with the suggested grandfathering of the current entitlement for<br />
existing staff, LAMS employees reject any change to their current<br />
entitlements. ·<br />
• The proposed reduction in termination eligibility will only exacerbate the<br />
existing problems with staff accruing significant amounts of annual leave as<br />
this will be their only buffer against sudden and unexpected unemployment<br />
after an election if the proposed changes were to be accepted<br />
e We note that the MOU between Government and Unions in relation to the<br />
negotiation of agency agreements states that this is to be a nodisadvantage<br />
agreement and the proposed changes would lead to a<br />
significant reduction in staff entitlements. Considering you are offering us<br />
no more than what is being offered to ACTPS employees we want the<br />
same guarantee to apply to LAMS.<br />
4. Time Off In Lieu<br />
Accumulation of TOIL credit to be capped at 110.25 hours.<br />
• Staff believe that any discussion to the reduction of the TOIL cap must be<br />
part of a wider ranging review of the TOIL system as set out in our log of<br />
claims.