They depend on where you sit in the current increment structure. The closer your current job is to the company rate, the less you get in cash payment, and conversely, the further above the company rate your current pay is, the more you would receive in a cash payment. The logic behind this is unclear . Employees who are in the middle of the increment range are likely to get little or nothing from the translation payments or the cash payments. We believe that employees who are in the mid-range of our increments be compensated for the loss of future increments.
Further feedback required from members is needed.
The pay rates for the proposed Customer Contact Agreement are set out in a table 1. This enables us to compare our rates to the Field Workforce rates. The Part VIA of the Workplace Relations Act requires Telstra to pay equal pay for work of equal value. This is to prevent employers from paying some jobs less because they are predominantly done by women. There is a real question mark over whether these pay rates meet this test.