There will be important, paid time, report back meetings for hosts held on Wednesday and Thursday this week in the Yowie Room at 4.30pm.
These meetings are to gather feedback from Visitor Hosts about provisions in
the CA that will directly affect Hosts and other rostered staff.
Specifically the current position on the averaging of penalties and the
museums objective to increase the additional hour’s part time rostered staff can
work at ordinary hours rates.
As your representatives on the negotiation team have stressed in CWAG
meetings, these items can not be considered in isolation from other matters that
have been raised by Visitor Hosts or as part of the Museums objectives for these
negotiations. A large number of hosts indicated that they want to accrue leave
entitlements for additional hours worked and there are implications from the
introduction of Casual staff (as per APS Act) that need to be considered and
discussed with Hosts.
We have tried to schedule these meetings at times that will allow a majority,
if not all, hosts to attend. Would you please do all you can to ensure Visitor
Hosts are aware of this meeting - how important their feedback is, and to
encourage them to attend one of the meetings on Wednesday or Thursday afternoon
this week.
If you can not come, and would like to contribute, please talk to, or email,
Margaret Fox or Alison Sexton-Green as soon as possible so that we can include
your views and concerns in discussions.
A bulletin with more specific information about progress in negotiations will
be circulated early next week.
