Telstra Human Resources should abide by a ruling of the federal Department of Workplace Relations and immediately resume talks with unions about a new enterprise agreement. The department has found that a draft memorandum of understanding for a constructive relationship proposed by the unions would not put Telstra in breach of the national construction code. ACTU secretary Jeff Lawrence says

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Australia Post faces Commission for denying workers’ sick leave entitlements Postal workers have been stripped of their sick leave entitlements for bogus reasons, including calling in sick ‘too early’, says their union. Australia Post has directed employees to call in sick only during a one-hour window before the commencement of their shift. Workers who have called in several hours before

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It’s been revealed that Telstra applied psychological profiling to its staff to work out how to lure them onto AWAs.The claims are detailed in the Herald-Sun.  The full article can be found here: Telstra lure of AWAs attacked (Herald Sun, 21 July 2008) Some of the claims include: “…Telstra managers studied and classified workers to exploit their personality traits. “A

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Telstra management’s secret IR strategy reveals unethical treatment of workers: unions call for talks Official company documents revealed today show a secret strategy used by Telstra management to get 15,000 employees onto Australian Workplace Agreements ahead of a ban on them which came into force in March.   The secret training kit obtained by a newspaper lays out a plan

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CEPU BANS THREAT TO MEMBER HEALTH & SAFETY The CEPU’s highest decision-making body – the Divisional Conference – has taken an important decision to ban member co-operation with Australia Post’s Facility Nominated Doctor process. Independent bodies such as the Australian Industrial Relations Commission previously ruled that the process was improper – it stopped the previous FND plan dead in its

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The Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has questioned Telstra’s decision to pull out of EA talks with the unions – and also questioned Telstra’s claim that their tender for the NBN project might be affected by a collective agreement.  “The National Code and Guidelines for the Construction Industry do not in any way prevent a company subject to their operation

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Yesterday, Telstra decided it didn’t want to talk to the unions anymore about an enterprise agreement affecting up to 32,000 employees.A day later – after saying they would no longer talk – Telstra’s HR managers launched a website called “Now We’re Talking.” Now, that is “irony”… Just when you thought things couldn’t get more bizarre, Telstra prove that in their

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The email below was written by a new member.  This member took their concerns about Telstra’s bizarre actions straight to Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard.  We don’t need to editorialise about the corporation’s actions – here’s a view straight from an employee’s perspective: Dear Julia,   My name is (J) and I write to comment in relation to Telstra Corp

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There’s been a lot of drama mixed in with specially coded words following Telstra’s HR managers decided to steer the EA talks towards a brick wall.Telstra managers are wandering the country claiming we want to push agreements that they describe as “illegal” and are “side agreements” that threaten their ability to secure the NBN contract. The Deputy Prime Minister knocked

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The move by Telstra HR managers to call off  Enterprise Agreement talks puts at risk the future pay and job conditions of around 32,000 Telstra workers. Telstra workers should be very disappointed with the approach being taken by the company’s Human Resources managers. Calling off talks at such an early stage of negotiations is not at all helpful. In fact

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