Outcomes

NTEU's Key bargaining outcomes

Round 5 of enterprise bargaining in Australia’s universities is now complete.

The major outcomes achieved in this round of bargaining include:

Salary increases of between 16 – 18% over the life of Agreements, with an average increase of 4.6% pa to 2012.
This is significantly better than average outcomes achieved in the private sector (3.8% per annum) and most of the public sector and contrasts favourably with the average economy-wide increase of 4.0% per annum. DEEWR recently reported that employees covered by enterprise agreements negotiated by unions received higher increases compared with those who are covered by ‘non-union agreements’. In fact the ‘union wage premium’ has increased in the March quarter of 2011, with agreements covering unions delivering average annualised wage rises of 4% and those with no unions providing rises of 3.5%.

Restoration of job security and managing change provisions and limits on management prerogative.

Guaranteed Indigenous employment targets.

Improved general/professional staff classification processes.

Caps on academic and general/professional staff workloads.

Improved conditions for casual staff, including increasing the casual loading to 25%, separate payment for marking, more secure employment opportunities, limits on the use of casual staff.