Referendum basics: how to enrol, how to vote
It's been a long time since we've had a referendum, so there are no dumb questions about how it works.
Tasmanians for the Voice: Raymond Blizzard
In the current edition of The Point, the best words about why the IEU supports the Voice to Parliament come from a member. We literally couldn’t say it better ourselves!
Voice to Parliament: links and resources
The IEU is wholeheartedly supporting a Yes vote for Indigenous recognition in the Constitution via a Voice to Parliament because we believe it provides a simple, fair, and unifying message.
Constitutional recognition and the Voice to Parliament: let’s get this done!
When we listen to people about decisions which affect them, we get better results. This is well known to unionists, who understand that workers need to be consulted on decisions that affect them.
Know Your Agreement: Victorian Catholic Education Agreement Highlights - Part 5
The final in our series on important provisions in the new Catholic Education Multi-Enterprise Agreement, including some important details you might have missed which could significantly enhance your working life.
Know Your Agreement: Redundancy & resignation improvements
The CEMEA Agreement provides earlier access to the maximum redundancy pay.
Know your Agreement: Reductions in Scheduled Class Times
The Scheduled Class Time (SCT) reductions of one hour in 2023 and a further half-hour in 2024 are the biggest changes to SCT in 20 years.
Know Your Staff: Carolyn Monk, IEU Industrial Assistant – and former Matilda!
Carolyn is a committed unionist and a passionate football follower who took a keen interest in the Women’s World Cup.
Know Your Agreement: Victorian Catholic Education Agreement Highlights - Part 4
Over the next few weeks, we’ll highlight important provisions in the new Catholic Education Multi-Enterprise Agreement, including some important details you might have missed which could significantly enhance your working life.
Know your Agreement: Consultative Committee changes
Consultation is crucial to the operation of the Catholic Education Multi Enterprise Agreement (CEMEA). The key vehicle for consultation in your schools is the Consultative Committee.
Know your Agreement: Meetings limits
Fewer meetings, more efficiently run. Every educator wants that. And this Agreement delivers the means for that outcome through the 30+8 workload model.
Know your Agreement: Accident make-up pay
The CEMEA increases the period of payment of accident make-up pay, to eligible employees, to a maximum of 39 weeks, inclusive of non-term weeks.
Know Your Agreement: Victorian Catholic Education Agreement Highlights - Part 3
Over the next few weeks, we’ll highlight important provisions in the new Catholic Education Multi-Enterprise Agreement, including some important details you might have missed which could significantly enhance your working life.
It’s alive: the Victorian Catholic Education Agreement is approved at last!
Victorian Catholic IEU members, you have an Agreement. Not a proposal, a draft, or an implementation guide; you are now proud co-owners of a Fair Work Commision approved document which legally enforces wholescale improvements to workload regulation, leave entitlements and much more.
Know Your Agreement: Time in Lieu (Teachers)
For the first time under this Agreement, the many hours of employer-directed work outside of normal hours undetaken by teachers in Victorian Catholic schools are accounted for and acknowledged.
Know your Agreement: Flexible leave
All employees apart from casuals with a personal leave balance will be eligible for one day (7.6 hours) paid leave for personal reasons to be taken at a time approved by the principal.
Know your Agreement: fixed term & casual employment improvements
The CEMEA makes a commitment at the outset to minimise the use of fixed-term employment in its schools. This guiding principle is followed by strict specifics.
Know Your Agreement: Victorian Catholic Education Agreement Highlights - Part 2
Over the next few weeks, we’ll highlight important provisions in the new Catholic Education Multi-Enterprise Agreement, including some important details you might have missed which could significantly enhance your working life.
Tasmanian Catholic bargaining update - July 2023
Negotiations between the IEU and Tasmanian Catholic school employers continued at a full day meeting in Hobart in mid-July, but the parties are still some way off reaching agreement on several key issues.
Know Your Agreement: Family and Domestic Violence Leave, and Sexual Abuse Survivor's Support
The CEMEA increases the entitlement to paid family and domestic violence leave for employees other than casual employees, to up to 20 days per school year.