Corrective Services

CPSU wins wage increase for private prison officers

Prison officers at Fulham Prison near sale in Victoria have (WED) voted to accept a package which equates to an additional 10.35 per cent wage increase as settlement of a work value case run in the Federal Commission as a dispute arising under an enterprise agreement.

This amount is in addition to the 15 per cent wage increase that the prison officers had already obtained through that agreement.

Joint National Secretray David Carey said the win was the result of a long running case in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) before Senior Deputy President Lacy.

"It is an important win for private prison officers who have for a long time been working with the CPSU to bring themselves into line with the wages won by the union for prison officers paid by the Government," said Mr Carey.

"If the CPSU hadn't taken this action they would have fallen further behind and it would have been almost impossible for them to catch up," he said.

The financial outcome of the agreement consists of the following:
· 3.8 per cent increase paid on 2 February 2003 back paid as a lump sum (calculated on substantive salary to 1 July 2002 (back pay value approx 2.2 per cent of substantive salary.)
· 4 per cent increase to substantive salary from the first pay period following 1 July 2003
· A further increase of 4 per cent to substantive salary from the first pay period follwing 1 July 2004 (compounds to 8.16 per cent)
· An extension of the existing enterprise bargaining agreement by eight months to March 2005.

CPSU Fulham Correctional Centre members voted overwhelmingly to accept the agreement by 83 to 5.

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Last Modified: 15 Nov 2005