ABC staff agree to new pay deal, conditions.
A 2% pay rise, back paid to July 1, may put ABC management at odds with the govt's workplace bargaining policy.
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ABC employees have reportedly voted in favour of a new enterprise agreement.
The ABC’s 5000 workers will get a pay rise of 2 per cent per year for the three year deal, back paid to July 1, and will be entitled to seven days domestic violence leave with maternity leave boosted from 14 weeks to 16 weeks, with 2 to 4 weeks supporting partner leave.
Women at the ABC will be paid their superannuation while taking time off to have children, in a bid to close the “super gap” for women.
“ABC staff have now secured a modest pay rise while holding onto the vast majority of their rights and conditions and gaining important new benefits that should be provided by all modern employers,” the union’s national secretary Nadine Flood said.
But Fairfax reports the new agreement is also in open defiance of the government’s plea that the ABC’s new deal be in line with its tough workplace bargaining policy, which expressly forbids back pay and strictly limits “enhancements” to workplace entitlements.