EB Academic Staff EB Minutes

MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE ACADEMIC ENTERPRISE BARGAINING GROUP 12:00PM - 1:00PM, MONDAY 21 JULY 2000 CONFERENCE ROOM, TC LAMBLE BUILDING Present: Rod Gerber, Dean, FEHPS Mary Notestine, NTEU Representative Alan Cumming, PVC (Academic) Rhonda Forrest, NTEU Representative Chris Serow, Manager, IR & WC Jenny McParlane, NTEU Representative Chris Burrell, IR Officer and Academic EB Secretary Adrian Ryan, NTEU State Sec Sue Johnston (Director TLC) Graeme Dennehy (Executive Director) Meeting opened at 12:05pm Alan Cumming took the role of chair. ITEM 1: APOLOGIES Tim Battin, NTEU Representative ITEM 2: MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETINGS OF 3 JULY 2000 The minutes of 3 July were passed as a true and accurate record of those proceedings. ITEM 3: BUSINESS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES OF 5 JUNE 2000 3.1 Resourcing of the NTEU EB Team The University advised that the issue of backdated resourcing would be finalised as soon as possible. The NTEU will provide a written request/proposal to the University for continual resourcing from expiration of original agreement in Feb/March. 3.2 Paper on the Efficiency and Financial benefits of UNE proposal UNE tabled a document on the Efficiency and Financial benefits of the UNE proposal. NTEU will review this paper and come back with a response at the next meeting. ITEM 4: UNE RESPONSE TO THE NTEU REVISED LOG OF CLAIMS 4.1 Comparison of logs to DETYA guidelines UNE tabled a document that outlines a comparison between the logs. This document also outlined the Universities view on how the logs related to the DETYA guidelines. The NTEU will review this paper and come back with a response at the next meeting. 4.2 4%Interim Payment UNE rejected the 4% up-front interim payment as UNE can not afford to pay such a claim & that the interim payment would be tied to both Academic and General Staff. UNE advised that it was still interested in looking at a moratorium, such as 2%. UNE will put together a proposal for a moratorium by Tuesday 25th July for consideration by the NTEU. 4.3 Response to NTEU revised log UNE advised the NTEU of their position on the NTEU Revised log of claims. UNE will review their current log and the NTEU's revised log and provide a revised proposal that will form the basis of further discussion. ITEM 5: OTHER BUSINESS The parties agreed that the next two meeting for Academic EB would be: · Wednesday 9 August from 1:30pm - 5:00pm and · Thursday 10 August from 2:00pm - 4:00pm ITEM 6: SUMMARY OF MEETING 1. The parties discussed the issue of resourcing and it was agreed that the NTEU would provide a proposal for continuing financial support to the EB Teams. 2. The University tabled a paper on the Efficiency and Financial Benefits of UNE's proposal. 3. UNE tabled a document that outlines a comparison between the logs. This document also outlined the Universities view on how the logs related to the DETYA guidelines. 4. UNE rejected the 4% up-front interim payment but advised that it was still interested in looking at a moratorium. UNE will put together a proposal for a moratorium for consideration by the NTEU.

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