A further update will be issued after the meeting. This bulletin answers frequently asked questions about the process to date. Initial discussion centred on who should be covered by the proposed enterprise agreement but management also went through CPSU s Draft Agreement, identifying clauses or parts of clauses that they saw as problematic. No-one would expect management to agree to every clause on first reading and this was a useful start towards identifying areas of likely agreement or disagreement and the work that will be needed before we can arrive at a mutually acceptable document.
Agreements can also provide clear and consistent employment conditions.
Management wants to restrict enterprise agreement benefits to ex-Telstra employees who joined the company in 1997. For many employees this could include being eligible for benefits such as paid overtime. Rather than involve both parties in a lengthy and adversarial legal process, CPSU is offering the company the opportunity to negotiate reasonable employment conditions, based on employee and company needs, for all Telstra account employees. Your collective strength is a force management cannot ignore.