Instead of boosting pay to cover the increase in superannuation now due to staff on performance-based pay, Telstra management is taking advantage of clever wording in its individual contracts to claw back the money from workers’ take home pay.
ACTU Secretary Jeff Lawrence says Telstra’s management has again been caught red-handed in a cynical ploy to disadvantage its employees.
"Literally weeks after management mounted a blitz to sign 15,000 employees onto AWAs, many of these Telstra workers will now receive a nasty surprise: they have been dudded out of some of their take-home pay following changes to the way superannuation contributions are calculated.
"Very few workers would have been aware they were signing up to an AWA salary arrangement that was deliberately structured to avoid passing on improvements in superannuation.
"Unions calculate that for a typical call centre worker on a total remuneration package of about $50,000 with 20% of their pay performance-based, their take home pay will fall by $720 a year or up to $3600 over the five-year life of the AWA.
"The Telstra AWAs also give employees less certainty about important conditions such as sick leave, hours of work and redundancy.
"This is a clear example of how Telstra workers can be worse off on an individual contract compared to the collective agreement (EA) that unions are seeking to negotiate with the company.
"Telstra management should stop treating its staff unethically and restart constructive talks with unions over transition arrangements for staff on AWAs and a new collective agreement to cover the telco’s 32,000 staff," Mr Lawrence says.
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