Conditions Under Attack At City of Gold Coast

Last Thursday, all parties to the City of Gold Coast (COGC) Certified Agreement (CA) submitted their Log of Claims.

The City has a clear agenda to cut conditions which will have a significant financial impact on employees. Some of the concerning proposals from the City include:

  1. Retirement of 10DFN Arrangements (including 14% loading): This would see many employees lose 14% of their current wage. 

  2. Spread of Working Hours: Expanding the rostering of ordinary hours to potentially remove overtime payments and TOIL. 

  3. Overtime: All overtime to be paid at 1.5 times the ordinary rate. This would remove double time overtime payment entitlements. 

  4. Redundancy and Redeployment: Reducing redeployment periods from 26 weeks to 13 weeks and cutting the Early Separation Incentive Payment (ESIP) from $15,000 to $7,500.

Click HERE to see the City of Gold Coast Log if Claims.  

In stark contrast, The Services Union Log of Claims is about improving and maintaining conditions for all employees rather that cutting conditions.  

Click HERE to see our claims.  

Employees are already among the lowest paid in Local Government across Queensland and it is concerning that Council is pursuing cuts to conditions that would further erode workers’ take-home pay and job security. We are already doing more with less due to the Council’s failure to attract and retain staff and attacking employment conditions will exacerbate this further. 

The City’s actions may be part of a strategy to push through low wage increases, so we will be asking many questions during negotiations this week.

Our message to COGC employees is clear: Don’t be fooled, stand firm and join your union if you want to maintain and improve existing conditions.

What we need from you.

  1. Please share this update with all your colleagues.

  2. If they are not yet members, encourage them to join our Union at www.theservicesunion.com.au

With pay and conditions under attack at COGC, it’s time for workers to stick together so we have stronger bargaining power and the ability to maintain and improve our conditions.