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Higher Education
Industrial Action
No play no money: Feds to Uni's
By David Mendelssohn
Senior Federal Industrial Officer
Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews today (Friday) told Universities what they will have to do in regard to industrial relations in order to continue to receive Federal Government funding.
Some of the main features are:
as from today, all new staff will have to offered AWAs;
by 31 August 2006, all other employees must be offered AWAs;
every agreement certified after today must contain a clause enabling AWAs to operate to the exclusion of the certified agreement;
every university's certified agreement, personnel policies and practices must provide for direct consulation between the university and employees on IR and HR matters and third parties, ie, unions, can only be involved at the request of an affected employee;
consultative committees and associated committee processes must include direct employee involvement;
certified agreements, policies and practices must not limit or restrict a university's ability to make decisions about course offerings and associated staffing requirements, including limitation on the use of fixed-termers, part-timers and casuals;
agreements, policies and practices must include a performance management scheme which rewards high performing individual staff and "efficient processes" to manage poor performing staff;
a university cannot use Commonwealth grant funds to pay union staff salaries or fund union facilities and activities.
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