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