EA meeting #4 - Your future, our proposal - station staff and regional on-boarders

More information on your future, our proposal for station staff and regional on-boarders

Bringing to you our regular update on bargaining meetings – they’re still on Microsoft Teams, and we are really disappointed not to have been visiting Albury which was our plan.

However, we have had more detailed discussions on….

Station teams and regional on-boarders – your future, our proposal

In our new Enterprise Agreement, we would like to recognise and reward the role that our station and regional on-boarder staff do every day for customers. That’s why we’re proposing to create a new section of the EA with pay and conditions that are more favourable for you:

What we’re proposing to change

  • A higher base pay for station and regional on-board staff through a classification structure
  • Year on year pay progression through structured pay grades
  • Your capabilities recognised and rewarded
  • A standard unpaid meal break of 30 minutes
  • Overtime paid after 10 hours per shift (if you work longer than this)

What’s not proposed to change

  • Home stations
  • Shift penalty and weekend penalty rate
  • Held away from home and travel/incidentals allowances
  • Overtime penalty rate

We are not proposing to apply these changes to salaried station staff, such as Duty Managers.

We know you’ll have questions. Keep sending them through to us and we’d be happy to answer them.

The Deed

The deed came up in today’s meeting and we confirmed that it is not part of our proposal. That is, we have no proposal to maintain the deed when we commence a new enterprise agreement.

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