New Leaked Slides: Telstra workers face 15% pay cut

August 24, 2008

Today, the media revealed yet another set of slides created by Telstra Human Resources.

These documents reveal Telstra’s managers believe that the industry leading pay standards negotiated over many years through collective bargaining and union representation are too high.

This is a shortsighted wage grab that jeopardises both the livelihoods of Telstra employees and the retention of a skilled workforce essential to Australia’s future economic growth.

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The past gains achieved in union-negotiated enterprise agreements are now at risk. These slides show Telstra wants to cut its wages bill by 15% by cutting wages, and outsourcing jobs.

This slide reveals that due to union collective bargaining and union involvement in negotiations Telstra’s average pay is currently the best in the industry, but the company wants to reduce the gap by offering only small annual increases. With inflation this year tipped to be above 4.5%, this amounts to a real pay cut.

Again, due to union collective bargaining, Telstra’s call centre employees are above the industry average, although the gap is closing. But this isn’t good enough for the company - it appears it wants to outsource their jobs to Salesforce, who pay less than half the market average. There are currently 4739 people employed in the call centres.

Telstra’s field staff currently earn an average of almost $60,000 a year, compared to the market rate of about $50,000. But if Telstra can hold the line and not allow a union enterprise agreement, that gap will have closed to only a couple of thousand dollars by 2011.

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This new leak is a huge revelation.
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