Postal

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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The CEPU has called on the Federal Government to provide $40 million of support to Australia Post’s Future Skills program. CEPU NSW State Secretary Jim Metcher appeared at the Federal Government’s inquiry into the NBN where he called for Government funding of at least $40 million to Australia Post’s Future Skills program. In August 2010, Australia Post announced that it

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At a meeting on 2 March with Comcare, the CEPU and Australia Post it was agreed  to extend  the terms of reference of Comcare’s review to include a review of SBD on all modes of delivery including walk buggies, bicycle and tricycle rounds. This is a welcome development as the same CEPU expert consultants who provided the report on SBD

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The CEPU recently appointed Associated Professional Ergonomists to undertake an in-depth health and safety report into the separate bundle delivery process Australia Post has attempted to implement. A copy of this in depth report can be downloaded using the following links: Separate Bundle Delivery Report Overview Attachment 1: Modes of delivery ergonomics and OHS factors Attachment 2: Modes of delivery

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Glebe residents, whose Post Office shuts for good this week, will receive a vastly inferior postal service from the main street’s new stamp-selling convenience store, the CEPU Postal Union said today. Australia Post announced this week it will set up a Community Postal Agency offering limited postal services out of the main street’s Lucky 7 Convenience Store, to replace the Post

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This is an important message alert to all CEPU members to check their pay entitlements against Australia Post’s inferior pay system. Over recent pay periods the Union has received significant complaints and grievances from members relating to inaccurate pay slip information and more importantly where members have received no pay caused by underpayments or overpayments by the new  inferior pay

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