One TAFE Restructure – March 2020 (PDF version)
The beginning of the roll-out of the One TAFE ‘Modernisation’ has been a long time coming for many TAFE employees – so yesterday morning’s announcement would have come as no surprise for many.
On Monday 2 March 2020, the TAFE Industrial Relations (IR) team and organisational change officers advised the CPSU NSW of that the One TAFE Restructure was to be announced to staff. On 3 March 2020 the CPSU NSW Industrial Officer and Organisers, along with CPSU NSW Delegates, met with TAFE IR officers to be briefed on the proposed Change Management Plans for the two areas of TAFE to be restructured. They being Business Development International and the People & Safety Recruitment.
This meeting represented the commencement of the three-week consultation period, as required by the Clause 11 of the TAFE Administrative, Support and Related Employees Enterprise Agreement 2019, on the proposed organisational design and change for these two areas of the organisation.
The union notes that the placement process in the draft Change Management Plans (CMP) is a vast improvement on the placement process which TAFE had attempted to implement in the final months of 2019 when it unnecessarily cut 200 jobs across the organisation.
Despite this, the union expressed our view that there are aspects of TAFE’s proposed placement process which do not accord fairness to existing staff who have won their current position on merit. We will seek to iron our objections over the coming weeks.
On the 2 March 2020 the CPSU NSW wrote to the Hon. Dr Geoff Lee MP, Minister for Skills and Tertiary Education in relation to the Government’s to the TAFE Review announced by the Premier last week: see our bulletin HERE. The union is calling on the NSW Government to:
The letter to Minister can be viewed HERE. We will update members once a response has been received.
Your union will be continuing to have regular consultation sessions with TAFE on the proposed CMPs. Therefore, we invite all affected members to get in touch with us directly.
We rely on conversations with members and the expert knowledge of members, to include in our final submission on the proposed CMPs to TAFE later this month.
We are here to support you. If your role is being impacted, we encourage you to get in touch either with the CPSU NSW’s Member Support Centre or with officials below.
Join your union: cpsunsw.org.au.
Members: please consider forwarding this bulletin to non-member colleagues, placing it in notice boards and distributing in your workplace.
Industrial Officer
Matthew Drake-Brockman
Organisers
Shane Jobberns
Chris Bird
South Region
West Region
North Region
Sydney Region
Western Sydney Region
Isabella Ramirra – Strathfield
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