We, ASU members at Hunter Water, want an agreement that delivers/addresses:
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Fair Pay & Conditions
- A fair pay rise which values our work, rewards us for increased productivity and enables us to meet rising costs of living. We reject the 2.5% pay rise under the NSW Liberal Government’s Wage Policy as it is unacceptable
- Increased superannuation contributions
- Equality in performance pay and working hours
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Respect at Work/Access to opportunities
- All decisions by managers to be fair and transparent
- Removal of achievement plans as they are not consistent across the organisation
- Concerns about lack of merit-based recruitment and direct appointments
- Concerns about the lack of recruitment in some areas leading to pressure in teams and high workloads
- Reasonable timing of job advertisements
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Safety at work
- Safety must remain a priority and productivity measures should not be pushed at the expense of employee safety
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A balance of work responsibilities with family and other responsibilities and leisure time including access to:
- Flexible and family friendly working hours
- Paid family and domestic violence leave
- Consistency and fairness in application of leave practices and management across the business
- Accrual limit of RDOs and loss of RDOs by employees in the business due to workload
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Job Security including:
- Enhanced procedures to minimise outsourcing and compulsory redundancies including a commitment to internal recruitment, redeployment and retraining
- Improved consultation processes so that members get a genuine say in all decisions which affect them at work
- Fair and transparent redundancy procedures which ensure that members who are affected by restructures are not forcibly redeployed
- Fairness of redundancy entitlements for long-serving employees - removal of 15-year service limit on calculating redundancy
- Concern around the extensive use of contractors and labour-hire within the business - offer existing labour hire employees jobs within Hunter Water
- Bring contact centre in-house
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