EBA

Negotiations for the next Telstra Enterprise Agreement have now been concluded. The parties are still going over the draft Agreement to check for any errors of wording, but basically all outstanding issues have been finalised.   The full Agreement should be available to Telstra employees next week. Pay Offer The pay rises in the Agreement are the same as those previously

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For a number of weeks, Telstra and the unions’ Single Bargaining Unit have been negotiating over the size of the pay rises to be paid over the life of the next Enterprise Agreement. A number of proposals and counterproposals have been made by the negotiators in an attempt to find a figure that will be acceptable to both sides. At

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Meetings between Telstra and the unions’ Single Bargaining Unit (SBU) have taken place since the last update. These meetings were largely taken up with fine tuning the wording around a number of items such as ETT, log on and travel arrangements and essential customer servicing. The last bargaining Update reported on the issues being considered in these areas which are

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Overview of progress to date As was noted in the last bargaining update, we are fast approaching the “pointy end” of Enterprise Agreement negotiations – at least if there is to be an agreement in place by September/October. A tight timetable The nominal expiry date for the present Enterprise Agreement is 24 September and pay rises for those on Telstra’s

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The CEPU and other Telstra unions met with Telstra on Monday 7 May for further Enterprise Bargaining negotiations. This followed a number of preliminary discussions in March and April. Jobs and pay structures The discussions again covered what are essentially the core issues in these negotiations i.e. the structure of the agreement, the way in which jobs in Telstra are

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The CEPU and other Telstra unions met with Telstra on Thursday 26 April as part of the current enterprise bargaining negotiations. This was the second formal meeting between Telstra and the unions’ Single Bargaining Unit (SBU) and was again largely concerned with establishing an agreed approach towards and timetable for bargaining. There was also some preliminary discussion on one of

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Bargaining for a new Enterprise Agreement (EA) in Telstra has officially begun with Telstra formally notifying its employees of bargaining on Wednesday 28 March. All CEPU members will shortly receive a survey in the mail and are asked to complete the survey honestly and return it back to the CEPU as soon as possible. This follows a number of preliminary meetings

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The Telstra EA was approved by Fair Work Australia today following an overwhelming yes vote by employees. The new EA will come in to force from next Friday, 24 September.

The approval of a new Union-negotiated collective agreement covering 10,000 employees at Telstra is a major achievement for Union members as provided for under the Fair Work Act 2009. The new enterprise agreement which was resoundingly approved by Telstra  workers, will deliver an initial 2% pay rise backdated to 1 July 2010 and further pay rises totalling 6% between now and October  2011 . Employee participation was exceptionally high with a 71% returning

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The CEPU is continuing to meet with Telstra to attempt to resolve outstanding pay issues in the proposed EA. Further discussions took place on 12th April. At this meeting the CEPU also requested a copy of a draft agreement which Telstra has prepared.  The union has subsequently received a copy of this document. While the document contains matters on which

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