What reasons did Telstra HR give for calling off negotiations?
Telstra HR has provided several reasons for why they’ve refused to negotiate their staff Enterprise Agreement and put future payrises and conditions in jeopardy. These are: The unions’ so-called ‘side agreements’: “The ACTU, with Telstra unions, demanded that Telstra sign side-agreements in order to progress EA discussions. Two side-agreements (the Constructive Relationship Agreement and the Memorandum of Understanding) have been presented to Telstra and both have been rejected. This is because they contain prohibited content that is unlawful and could not be included in a new EA.” Telstra HR has raised issues of democracy, saying that staff would not get a vote on whether or not to sign a side agreement. And they have said that the unions are supposedly placing Telstra’s ability to win the National Broadband Network contract in jeopardy: “Importantly, signing the union side-agreements would disqualify Telstra from tendering for the $4.7 billion national broadband network (NBN) project
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