Postal

There are about 1.4 million low-paid Australian workers on minimum Award wages who rely on Union representation at annual wage cases to protect their living standards – that’s one in six workers. These workers include our members who are employed by Licensed Post Offices. It is also worth noting that Unions vigorously pursue a pay rise in minimum wage cases

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People running Licensed Post Offices (LPOs) have accused Australia Post of bullying them into accepting “sweatshop” conditions. In a survey of more than 50 licensees across every state and territory in regional, rural and city areas by the ABC News, LPOs say Australia Post is intimidating and undercutting them. Three-quarters of licensees who were willing to go on the record

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Australia Post has developed a policy on the use of compressed air for cleaning of equipment.  The new policy stems from CEPUrepresentations to Australia Post on this matter following two serious accidents in which two Post technicians were struck on the head with a compressed air gun in separate incidents. While action is definitely required to eliminate the risk of any further

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Australia Post launched plans for a new Post Office Retail Store and improved training for retail employees last week.  ‘The  ‘post office of the future’ will offer a range of new services to customers and greater access, convenience and choice in the way they transact with Australia Post.   A key feature of the announcement was the Future Skills Training program for frontline employees.

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The Union over recent weeks has had cause to intervene on extended trading hours and CCTV matters of concern that has resulted in high level discussions with Australia Post at the state level. Extended Trading Hours at Australia Post Retail Outlets It is understood that two Area Managers has caused some significant grief with Retail employees at all levels in

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It is with sadness that we inform all Union members of a tragic motor vehicle accident on Saturday 2 April 2011 at Fairfield that has caused serious personal injuries to two long standing CEPU members. The two CEPU members and husband and wife team being Liem and Tam Le, who are both employed as mail officers at the Australia Post

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The revised Australia Post First Aid Policy incorporates a number of the CEPU’s recommendations and on balance is an improvement on the previous policy. The review follows the introduction of the Commonwealth OHS Code of Practice (2008) Part 2 – First Aid (OHS Code of Practice – First Aid) which provides guidance to employers on how to meet their duty

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A new Delivery round hazard profile procedure standardising the process for identifying, assessing and controlling safety risks on mail delivery rounds is to be introduced in Australia Post workplaces. It is intended to replace all existing methods currently in use.  The new procedure applies to all letter delivery rounds and all delivery modes. Perhaps the biggest issues raised by the

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The CEPU has received continuous complaints from a number of delivery facilities about exposure to excessive noise levels since the installation of the new Solystics sequencing machine. Australia Post claim that sound pressure levels around the machine average 67.8dB and that this is lower than the threshold of 85dB where hearing protection is recommended. However the posties whose frames are

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Some time back Australia Post unilaterally determined that new employees in eLetters would be employed in accordance with the Sprintpak classification levels rather than the Mail Officer classification that had previously been applied to eLetter employees.   It goes without saying that the rate of pay in the Sprintpak classification level 1 is lower than the Mail Officer rate.  However under

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