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Good news – BOQ employees will soon be asked to vote on our proposed Bank of Queensland Enterprise Agreement.

From Tuesday 7 July, the draft Agreement will be made available for employees – this is your opportunity to get the full detail of what’s being proposed and consider the improvements our FSU Bargaining Reps has negotiated for the next three years.

Employees will then have from 14 – 20 July to vote. Our union is recommending workers vote ‘yes’ to the proposed Agreement.

Please register and attend one of the below 45-minute information sessions to ask any questions you may have about the proposed Agreement.

Here’s a summary of some of the changes that we’ve negotiated:

• An increase to minimum rates of pay
• 50% work from home right enshrined in a new section dedicated to Workplace Flexibility
• Improvements to the workplace change and redundancy process
• An increase to special paid leave (now called wellbeing leave) from three to five days per year
• An additional two days’ sick leave to 12 per year
• An increase to compassionate leave to five days per occasion
• Removal of mandatory two-week block of annual leave per year and reduction in shutdown days
• An expansion of higher duties
• Increases to allowances
• Simplified overtime and increased eligibility for lower paid workers.

Congratulations to all FSU members for reaching this crucial stage in the process. Members have worked hard to secure some good improvements, including shifting management on their original substandard pay offer. We encourage you to vote ‘yes’ when the ballot opens on 14 July.