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ANU Enterprise Bargaining 2008

The University and unions representing ANU staff will start negotiating a new enterprise agreement on 1 April 2008.

This site has been established to facilitate feedback from staff and help us communicate as we move though the process of creating a new agreement. Once agreement is reached, information sessions will be held by both the University and the unions to explain the changes to all staff before you will asked to take part in an electronic vote on the agreement. 

This page will be updated periodically to keep staff informed of progress.  Staff are encouraged to provide their comments and views via staff.comment@anu.edu.au, or to contact the members of the negotiating teams direct.

News

21 August 2008

Negotiations for the next ANU Enterprise Agreement  have been ongoing since April 2008  and good progress is being made on  changes which will benefit staff of the ANU . 

To date broad agreement has been reached  on a range of enhanced conditions and additional benefits that will improve the overall conditions of all staff at the ANU. These include:

• Expanded purchased leave arrangements
• Cashing out of excess annual and long service leave
• Improved flexible work arrangements
• Improved flexibility on use of the additional 6 weeks (above the 20 weeks) parental leave to assist career re-entry after parental leave
• 2 weeks’ paid and 1 weeks ' unpaid partner parental leave
• Introduction of 12 months unpaid grandparent’s leave
• Clarity on academic personal and annual leave arrangements
• Improvements in arrangements for apprentices and trainees and adult apprentice rates
• Improved arrangement and benefits for all casual and sessional academic staff including:
• An increase in casual loading from 23 to 25 %
• Introduction of a 3% “experience” loading for experienced casual/sessional staff (subject to meeting criteria)
• Payment for time when sessional staff are required to attend academic meetings or other academic activities
• Better definition on what marking is included in the sessional rate
• Improved access to facilities for sessional lecturer/tutor staff
• The inclusion of an environmental sustainability clause to emphasise the commitment of the ANU and its staff to reducing our carbon footprint
• Enhance community engagement through our Indigenous employment clause

In addition, the ANU has agreed to most of the NTEU claims for the restoration of provisions within the agreement that were moved into policy under previous  government workplace reforms. 

Discussions are continuing on the difficult issue of pay in light of the uncertainty of government funding which will not become clear until mid next year through the government budget process. At present we will only receive a 2.1% increase in our core government funding, which needs to cover the cost of salaries and non-salary costs.

Once agreement on a pay increase has been reached, more detail on this and the other benefits will be provided to all staff through the EBA Website and information sessions will be conducted across the campus. All staff will be then asked to vote for the agreement.

 

ANU Negotiating Team

Ron Watts (Chair) Professor Mandy Thomas Professor Michael Coper Professor Keith Houghton Professor Jim Williams Professor Andrew Macintyre Bart Meehan

Advisory Support and Research Staff Steven Dover Bradley Beasley Kate Leonard

 

Union Negotiating Team

NTEU	Peter Davidson (NTEU     Industrial staff) Derek Corrigan (ANU   President) Michael O’Donnell (ANU Secretary) Patricia Gray	612 52043 612 53401 612 58112 612 59009	pdavidson@nteu.org.au derek.corrigan@anu.edu.au michael.odonnell@anu.edu.au patricia.gray@anu.edu.au
AMWU	Ian Morrison (AMWU ACT) John Sullivan	6273 2412 612 56605	ian.morrison@amwu.asn.au john.sullivan@anu.edu.au
HSU	Bev Turello Glen Tyrrell	0419 693 358 1300 478 679	bev.turello@hsu.asn.au glenn.tyrrell@hsu.asn.au
LHMU	Lyndal Ryan (Secretary ACT) Ian Gair (President ACT)	6273 1238 6231 3613	LyndalR@lhmu.org.au Ian.gair@anu.edu

 

Related Links

ANU Enterprise Agreements (current and previous versions)

Staffing Structures Discussion Paper

NTEU Log of Claims