Common use of QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT COMMITMENT TO UNION ENCOURAGEMENT Clause in Contracts

QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT COMMITMENT TO UNION ENCOURAGEMENT. The Queensland Government has made a commitment to encourage union membership among its employees. As part of this commitment the government will: • Acknowledge union delegates and job representatives have a role to play within a workplace, including during the agreement making process. The existence of accredited union delegates and/or job representatives is to be encouraged. Accredited union delegates and/or job representatives shall not be unnecessarily hindered in the reasonable and responsible performance of their duties. • Subject to relevant legislation, allow employees full access to union delegates/officials during working hours to discuss any employment matter or seek union advice, provided that service delivery is not disrupted and work requirements are not unduly affected. Delegates will be provided reasonable access to facilities for the purpose of undertaking union activities. • Encourage the establishment of joint union and employer consultative committees at a central and agency level. • Promote reasonable and constructive industrial relations education leave in the form of paid time off to acquire knowledge and competencies in industrial relations. • Provide an application for union membership and information on the relevant union(s) to all employees at the point of engagement and during induction. • At the point of engagement, provide employees with a document indicating that the Agency encourages employees to join and maintain financial membership of an organisation of employees that has the right to represent their industrial interests. • Subject to relevant privacy considerations, provide union(s) with details of new employees. The active cooperation of all managers and supervisors is necessary to ensure that the government can honour this commitment. Passive acceptance by agencies of membership recruitment activity by unions does not satisfy the government’s commitment. Encouragement requires agencies to take a positive, supportive role, although ultimately it remains the responsibility of the unions themselves to conduct membership recruitment. SCHEDULE 3– Preserved Queensland Health Human Resources Policies Policy number Policy name Employees to whom policy applies