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BACKGROUND

The PSA continues to negotiate with Minda management for the development of a successor Enterprise Agreement to cover PSA members employed by Minda. To progress negotiations the PSA is meeting with Minda on Friday 19 August. To date, after consulting with PSA Job Representative Steve Mills, the PSA reviewed the draft E.A circulated by Minda and provided the following comments:

1. TITLE: amend to read, "Agreement No. 8, 2011."

10.PARTIES BOUND: amend PSA to read, "CPSU (SPSF Group) SA Branch"

26.HIGHER DUTIES: amend 26.2.2 to read, "greater than one (1) week" in lieu of 4 weeks.

31.PROGRAMMED DAYS OFF: amend 31.11 to read, "Employees will accrue" (ie, revert to text in previous EA)

NOTE: Members advised they believe Minda has not kept good faith with the intention during negotiations for the previous EA to enable staff to retain access to PDO's. Consequently members confirm they will not support the agreement unless the entitlement to access a monthly PDO is prescribed in the current agreement.

51.7  SEVERANCE PAY:    (51.7.2)

The PSA claims the current provisions are inadequate especially for longer term employees when compared to industry standards.  To bring Minda in line with reasonable redundancy payments the PSA claims:
   
        < 2  years        6 weeks pay
    2  < 3  years        8 weeks pay
    3  < 4  years      10 weeks pay
    4  < 5  years      12 weeks pay
    5  < 6  years      14 weeks pay
    6  < 7  years      18 weeks pay
    7  < 8  years      26 weeks pay
    8  < 9  years      34 weeks pay
    9  <10 years      42 weeks pay
    10<10 years      52 weeks pay

The PSA also claimed for a fair and reasonable wage increase.

PSA Industrial staff, Vy Vo and Mike Thorpe look forward to meeting with you and will be available to discuss the draft agreement and answer your questions.

2 February 2011