WaterNSW Enterprise Agreement approved
17 October 2022
Yesterday the Fair Work Commission approved the . The Agreement will operate from 24 October 2022, expiring on 30 June 2023. In accordance with Clause 6.1 Pay-Increase, there will be a pay increase of 2.53 per cent payable from the full pay period on or after 1 July 2022, with that pay period commences from 4 July 2022. WaterNSW has confirmed it is on track for pay increases and back pay to be in the 10 November 2022 pay run.
Other changes to the Agreement include:
- Simplified Pay and Classification structure Simplified PCS which clarifies pay progression and reduces the years of service required to progress to maximum pay for each grade. Grades 1-7, two per cent progression to maximum. Grades 8-10, 2 per cent progression to mid-point, one per cent progression to maximum.
- Bonus system name change to 鈥榩erformance pay鈥.
- New Performance zero per cent if 鈥渘ot met鈥, 1.1 per cent if 鈥減artially met鈥, 2.8 per cent if on target, and 3.4 per cent if 鈥渙ut performance鈥. NB: to pay for the 0.2 per cent cost of the simplified PCS, and the restrictive NSW Government鈥檚 wages policy, there is 0.2 per cent reduction in the performance pay matrices.
- Temporary employment: Updated wording and removal of 36-month cap; reporting to PCG on arrangements greater than 24 months.
- Incident Roster arrangements: Updated wording to clarify night shift rate applies to entire shift at same rate.
- Include traditional kinship in definition of family member.
- Acknowledgement of Country at beginning of Enterprise Agreement.
- Parental Leave provisions improved and aligned to the rest of the NSW public sector.
- Added exhaustion of personal leave, hardship and any other reason approved by WaterNSW to Special leave.
- Annual Leave 鈥 Removal of additional day of leave granted for 2021/22 only. Removal of the requirement to take two consecutive weeks. If there is to be a soft shutdown during the Christmas/New Year period it will be brought to the Peak Consultative Group at least three months prior to the proposal. Words added to clarify 鈥榰sual work location鈥.
- Military payment updated to 2021/2022 rates.