Your union delegates met with management on Tuesday 18 May for the Delegate Consultative Committee meeting.
If you have any future issue you want to put on the table, please contact one of your local delegates:
The 15-minute leeway for clocking on and off we negotiated last meeting seems to be working and has fixed lots of the issues with trying to get through the gatehouse in time. If you have any feedback, please let your delegates know.
Don’t forget if you have not been given more than 48 hours’ notice you do not have to accept a change to your rostered shift. This includes changing the day you were rostered or start and finish times.
You are not required to organise a shift swap either. Just let rostering know you don’t agree with the shift change and it is their responsibility to fix it.
Given the number of roster and ongoing pay issues, there will be a separate meeting with management to work through these issues.
There were some concerns from staff the policy on illicit drug use was not being applied consistently. Serco advised it has a total zero tolerance approach to staff taking illicit drugs, regardless of their position. If you advise Serco, or they discover, that you are or have taken illicit drugs your employment will be at risk
If you have concerns about this issue, or need advice, please talk to the CPSU NSW. CPSU NSW members and their families also have access to free residential drug and alcohol treatment service; just get in touch with your union.
Your delegates raised concerns about favouritism and inconsistent approaches to post assignments and when posts are changed. Serco has refused to guarantee post assignments when staff accept overtime shifts and maintains it has the right to change post assignments due to operational requirements.
There are concerns some post assignments are being changed due to managers’ personal preferences or because of favouritism. This is unacceptable and posts should only be changed due to operational requirements. Serco will be raising this with Supervisors.
There have been a number of incidents where there was not a member of staff on shift with a firearm authorisation. Serco have encouraged staff in Security and Ops to put their names forward for upcoming firearms courses.
Other issues discussed included:
