The University of Western Australia Collective Staff Agreements 2010
The University of Western Australia Collective Staff
Agreements 2010
The Agreements• Expiry date 30 September 2012
• Salary increases
• Academic Workload provisions
• Misconduct & Unsatisfactory Performance – Professional & General Staff
• Improved Severance for Ongoing Contingent Funded Staff
• Increase in PhD salary entry point - Academic Staff
• Casuals
• Leave
• Offshore Work
Salary increases
11% Salary Increase Comprising three instalments
• 3% increase paid 11th October 2010
• 3.5% increase September 2011
• 5% increase September 2012
Workloads – Academic Staff• Reasonable workloads and responsibility of
supervisors to ensure workloads are fair, equitable and manageable.
• Average 37.5 hours per week (1725 hours pa)
• Workload Models factors for inclusion
• Specify maximum teaching weeks (normally 26 weeks)
• Workload Advisory Committee
• Monitoring and reviewing of workload models
• Promote establishment of workload models
Misconduct and Unsatisfactory PerformanceBoth Misconduct and Unsatisfactory Performance have been
included in the Professional & General Staff Agreement to reflect current policies
Unsatisfactory Performance - reintroduces possible termination of a fixed term contract employee on the grounds of unsatisfactory performance
Misconduct- Agreement to include amended review provisions
regarding research misconduct
- Requirement of Part B of the NHMRC/ARC Research Code
Improved Severance for Ongoing Contingent Staff
Period of Continuous Service Severance Pay
At least 1 year but less than 2 years 4 weeks’ pay
At least 2 years but less than 3 years 6 weeks’ pay
At least 3 years but less than 4 years 7 weeks’ pay
At least 4 years but less than 5 years 8 weeks’ pay
At least 5 years but less than 6 years 10 weeks’ pay
At least 6 years but less than 7 years 11 weeks’ pay
At least 7 years but less than 8 years 13 weeks’ pay
At least 8 years but less than 9 years 14 weeks’ pay
At least 9 years but less than 10 years 16 weeks’ pay
At least 10 years 12 weeks’ pay
Increase in PhD salary entry point• Entry level for PhDs will increase from Level A step 7 to level
A step 8
• From 1 January 2011
Casual Employment• Increase in casual salary loading to 25% effective
from beginning of first pay period after lodgement (11 October).
• Recognition for additional marking based on in class/out of class criteria to be incorporated in Academic Casual Rates schedule
• Casual Academic Research rates will be introduced.
Leave• Parental Leave
• Annual Leave
• Personal leave
• Long service leave
• Bereavement / compassionate
• Community service leave
• Employee funded additional leave
Leave (cont’d)
Parental Leave
• Replacement of existing Return To Work Bonus with additional 12 or 22 weeks paid parental leave based on years of service.
• 12 months service required prior to each period of parental leave to access enhanced entitlement. (if not 14 weeks)
Leave (cont’d)
Annual Leave
• Accrued leave in excess of 8 weeks is considered to be excess leave
• Requirement to reduce leave on an annual basis to 4 weeks or less
• Transition arrangements, greater than 8 week balance clearance of 50% within 12 months and 4 weeks or less within 24 months
• Ability to cash out a minimum of 1 weeks leave with a minimum balance of 4 weeks – in cases of financial hardship only
Leave (cont’d)
Personal Leave (formerly Sick/Carers)
• A wider definition of immediate family
• Academic and Professional & General Staff are required to provide a medical certificate for absence of 3 or more consecutive working days
Leave (cont’d)
Long Service Leave
• Academic staff have access to take pro-rata LSL after 7 years
• Continuation of cessation of accrual when LSL is not cleared within 5 years of accrual
- Academic staff required to clear all LSL accrued- Professional & General staff required to clear a
minimum 6 weeks of LSL accrued- Transition arrangements in place (Prof & Gen)
Leave (cont’d)
Bereavement/compassionate Leave
• Bereavement/compassionate Leave
To be paid for up to 2 days on each permissable occasion with no limit on the number of occasions
• Community Service Leave
Provisions are extended to Academic staff
• Employee funded additional leave
Provisions extended to Academic staff
Additional 2 weeks to 8 weeks available under the Scheme
Offshore Work• Offshore work to be defined as work performed
outside Australia at the direction of the University
• Participation will be voluntary except where the requirement is a genuine requirement of the position
• Reimbursement of actual reasonable expenses
• Notice of 2 weeks to be given except in emergency situations
• Review during the life of the Agreement
Process
• Ballot
• Notification
• Lodgement
• Approval
• Implementation