Union members at the Defence Department will refuse to leave their offices in Campbell Park in Canberra for work duties from Tuesday as part of wide-ranging industrial action across Australia.
Members of two unions – Professionals Australia and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union – will run a coordinated campaign to disrupt work at the massive department to show their disapproval toward the Abbott government's enterprise bargaining negotiations.
Industrial action by Professionals Australia members will include indefinite bans on taking part in teleconferences and lodging invoices for work-related expenses.
Executive-level staff will not work more than two additional hours a week.
Members of the Professionals Australia union at Campbell Park, on the eastern side of Mount Ainslie, will not leave their office for work.
Overtime will be banned nationally on May 12 and 13.
Some staff in South Australia will refuse to provide advice to the federal government.
The AMWU has told members not to travel beyond their ordinary place of work within Australia for their job and will restrict work "out-of-hours" as well as emergency duty.
Industrial action will not be used when it affects critical work areas or reduces the safety of Australian Defence Force members on operations.
The two unions represent technical, scientific and trade-related employees at Defence which has about 20,000 civilian staff.
Disruptive behaviour at Defence was expected to increase because Community and Public Sector Union members at the department already voted in favour of taking industrial action last month.
It was not known when CPSU members would take action.
Civilians at the department were understood to be concerned a pay gap would be created between them and their uniformed colleagues in the ADF because of the federal government's approach to bargaining negotiations.
Civilians and uniformed personnel often worked side by side but public servants have been offered less than their colleagues in the ADF were given.
Members of two unions – Professionals Australia and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union – will run a coordinated campaign to disrupt work at the massive department to show their disapproval toward the Abbott government's enterprise bargaining negotiations.
Industrial action by Professionals Australia members will include indefinite bans on taking part in teleconferences and lodging invoices for work-related expenses.
Executive-level staff will not work more than two additional hours a week.
Members of the Professionals Australia union at Campbell Park, on the eastern side of Mount Ainslie, will not leave their office for work.
Overtime will be banned nationally on May 12 and 13.
Some staff in South Australia will refuse to provide advice to the federal government.
The AMWU has told members not to travel beyond their ordinary place of work within Australia for their job and will restrict work "out-of-hours" as well as emergency duty.
Industrial action will not be used when it affects critical work areas or reduces the safety of Australian Defence Force members on operations.
The two unions represent technical, scientific and trade-related employees at Defence which has about 20,000 civilian staff.
Disruptive behaviour at Defence was expected to increase because Community and Public Sector Union members at the department already voted in favour of taking industrial action last month.
It was not known when CPSU members would take action.
Civilians at the department were understood to be concerned a pay gap would be created between them and their uniformed colleagues in the ADF because of the federal government's approach to bargaining negotiations.
Civilians and uniformed personnel often worked side by side but public servants have been offered less than their colleagues in the ADF were given.
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