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Issues for the enterprise bargaining agenda
Work Patterns
Training
Job Design
Working Conditions
Family Considerations
Method of Payment
Possible issues:
- Wider spread of ordinary hours
- Staggered start and finish times
- Increase in permanent part-time jobs
- Changes to arrangements for rostered days off
- Longer or split shifts
- Rescheduling of meal and rest breaks
- Rescheduling of leave
- Job-sharing
- Averaging hours
Employee benefits:
- Flexibility to arrange required work hours to suit the situation
- Recognition that part-time workers are not second-class employees
- Part-time jobs and training at all levels
- Increased job security and benefits for casual workers who become permanent part-timers
- Higher morale
Employer benefits:
- Flexibility to respond to changing demands of business – having the right number of employees available at the right time
- Equipment kept in more constant use
- Leave taken in maintenance or low production periods
- More predictable labour costs
- Higher staff morale
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Possible Issues:
- Evaluating existing skills
- Training in multiple skills/whole tasks
- Literacy/numeracy training
- Link to national standards
- Employees training other employees
- Career paths identified
Employee benefits:
- Recognising use of skills that have been learned outside the workplace
- Better and broader skills – a multi-skilled employee
- Clear identification of career paths
- Training recognised nationally so skills are portable
- Improved communication through better literacy/numeracy
- Higher morale
Employer benefits:
- Available skills identified so training can focus on those still required for maximum productivity
- Better and broader skills – a multi-skilled workforce
- Improved communication through better literacy/numeracy
- Improved value for training investment as employees pass on skills to other employees
- Higher staff morale
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Possible Issues:
- Reducing hierachies
- Team work
- Removal of demarkation/use of multi-skilled employees
- Rotation between different jobs
- Employees/teams doing own quality control
- Redesigning jobs which are repetitive, heavy, stressful or highly male or female concentrated
Employee benefits:
- More interesting job
- More responsibility
- Building up new skills and expertise
- Ability to complete whole task – greater satisfaction and self-motivation
- Team work more satisfying than fragmented task work
- Higher morale
Employer benefits:
- Multi-skilled employees not as reliant on others to solve problems
- Building up more skilled, more expert workforce
- End to demarcation disputes
- Employees more responsible for own performance
- Better systems and work designs so work can be done once and done right
- Higher staff morale
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Possible Issues:
- Better health and safety provisions
- Facilities for disabled employees
Employee benefits:
- Better, safer workplace
- Fairer treatment of employees with mental and physical disabilities of any type
- Higher morale
Employer benefits:
- Better, safer workplace
- Lower compensation costs
- Higher staff morale
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Possible Issues:
- Paid/unpaid parental leave
- Use of other leave to care for dependants
- Child care facilities
- 'working at home' program
- Assistance to return to work
- Career break scheme
- Changes to work patterns
- School term only work
Employee benefits:
- Less stress in juggling work and family commitments
- More opportunity to continue in job, with breaks or changes in work patterns
- Can be honest about reasons for taking leave
- Higher morale
Employer benefits:
- Keep staff, maximising investment in training and reducing recruitment costs
- Reduce absenteeism or leave on 'false pretexts'
- Reduce unscheduled late starts and early finishes
- Improved means of handling conflict, reducing disputes, grievance, lost time and bad feeling
- Higher staff morale
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Possible Issues:
- Direct to bank account
- Taking time off in lieu of overtime payments
- Averaged pay
- Annualised pay
Employee benefits:
- More time off
- Possibly easier budgeting and planning with annualised pay
- Higher morale
Employer benefits:
- Reduced administration costs
- Reduced overtime costs
- Easier budgeting and planning with annualised pay
- Higher staff morale
In Summary:
Happier employees + More efficient operation = Improved productivity
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