Success – Feb 21 (PDF version)
In December the CPSU NSW issued a bulletin to members advising we had initiated an industrial dispute with TAFE NSW over its refusal to recognise Adult Migrant Education Program (AMEP) staff as being eligible for conversion to permanent employment.
This is despite many AMEP staff having been in the same role for between five and eight years.
We are pleased to be able to advise AMEP members who have been patiently seeking permanency that we have met with TAFE Industrial Relations (TAFE IR) and argued for a favourable outcome.
A number of temporary EAS staff have also been patiently waiting on outcomes on their respective permanent conversion applications.
Those members will know how drawn out the process has been with TAFE dragging its heels for months and continually offering excuses about how it supposedly needed to finalise the Teachers’ EA before it could look at EAS conversions.
Anyhow, owing to continued pressure on the part of your union we can also now advise we have secured a verbal assurance from TAFE IR that it will begin to convert the backlog of eligible EAS applications. This should happen beginning the first week of February.
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