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Employees vote YES to Lend Lease agreement
CWU members and other employees at Lend Lease have voted in favour of a new Enterprise Agreement after nearly 6 months of bargaining.
The new agreement will cover workers who have previously been working on award-based conditions but without an Enterprise Agreement as well as a smaller group who have been working under an EA that reached its nominal expiry date in 2011.
The new agreement will protect wage levels of all current workers, deliver a 3% per annum pay rise over three years (back paid to 1 December 2016) and provide improvements in core conditions.
New provisions include:
- 10% employer contribution to superannuation
- Increase in redundancy entitlements above the minimum National Employment Standards (NES)
- Increase in Travelling Allowance and On Call payments
- 17.5% leave loading (which the company had initially argued was already rolled into salaries).
The agreement received the support of 80% of those who voted on it and is currently before the Fair Work Commission awaiting certification.
