Postal
Admin staff miss out
(6 February, 2009): Australia Post employees at a Delivery Centre in New South Wales have been informed that employees classified as administration are not entitled to uniforms.
Typically the change in policy has been applied unilaterally with no regard to the particular circumstances of the individuals who work in the delivery centre. For instance, one Postal Delivery Co-ordinator Grade 1 (PDC1) in an administration support position has been advised that she is no longer entitled to a uniform while all other staff in the delivery centre, including two other PDC1s classified as team leaders, a PDC3 designated as operations, and the delivery manager all receive uniforms!
This hardly seems fair, said the PDC1. The New South Wales Branch agrees and has taken the matter up with Post on behalf of the CEPU member.
Australia Post’s latest penny pinching approach to the provision of uniforms demonstrates for members yet again why we need to have all employee entitlements documented in EBA7.