Documents Workplace Relations 10.14379.pdf - Chief Minister's ...

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