Summary
Despite a
concerted push from Management, the new Agreement will see no loss of existing
entitlements. Positive gains for UTS Professional Staff include:
- · 2%pa pay increase (paid twice-yearly as 1% in May and 1% in November)
- · Twice-yearly consultation meetings with University Management
- · 20 paid days of Domestic Violence Leave
- · 17% Supperannuation for all fixed-term staff from 2020
- · Reference to Working From Home Policy captured within the EA
- · Improvements to fixed-term and casual conversion
- · Extended Redeployment for Professional Staff HEW 7 and below (now 20 weeks)
- · Commitment to ongoing employment as the preferred mode of employment captured in EA
- · New post-restructure implementation review process added to Change Management
- · Increased Union training leave (now 10 days)
- · Non-gendered Primary Carer Leave replaces Maternity Leave
- · New Social Justice Leave category added to FACS Leave
- · Additional $500,000pa held in a central fund for “next-level” Professional Staff training and development
