What is the future for Centrelink Career Information Centres?
30 June 2010, 10:11am
Union members from each region have contacted your union with reports that Centrelink are planning major changes to the work that CIC staff do. Centrelink have not informed staff of their plans for CICs.
However, many areas are already seeing changes to their duties. What will all
of these changes mean for CIC workers jobs, pay and working conditions?
Where are you in the process?
When Centrelink proposes changes that affect you and your work, you have a
right to insist on consultation at the workplace level before the change is
implemented. Consultation includes providing you and your union with
information, time, and opportunity to influence the decision-making process.
Four simple steps for any consultation process on change
Discuss the reasons and need for change, including information, with you
and your union
Involve you and your union in decision-making by allowing input on the
change proposals
Take all your feedback into account and develop support on the proposed
change
Once a decision is made, continue consultation with you and your union
on the changes
Have your say, it’s important
Your union representatives will be taking your issues up with Centrelink
National Management to get the information we need to ensure your rights, pay
and conditions are respected; and to make sure you have a voice in this process.
Please download and fill in the short survey attached at right so that we have a
better understanding of the issues you would like addressed.
Your union membership is important
All employees have a right to influence management decisions that affect
them. With your membership, and by working together as members, we have the
strength to ensure that your rights are respected. To join simply
click here or call 1300 137 636.
