Lutheran Schools Enterprise Agreement

10. April 2021

LEQ should return to the bargaining table to work with employees and our union to develop a collective agreement recognizing the hard work and commitment of Queensland Lutheran School staff with contemporary working conditions. A serious question mark is the future of employment for workers in Queensland`s Lutheran schools, as their employer still intends to impose a plan of reductions, controls and restrictions on existing working conditions. Teachers and facilitators working in Queensland`s Lutheran schools are facing the biggest attack on labour rights in their sector. LEQ`s shameful plan was very clear when the employer ended collective bargaining in early June 2020 to pass its substandal agreement for workers. Lutheran Education Queensland (LEQ) should end the proposed reductions in current working conditions, which protect employee job security and provide work networks. Appendixes E -L of the proposed replacement plan for the 2016 Enterprise Agreement will be far from making an employer of choice in the non-governmental education sector. Some of the reductions that the LEQ wants to make to the terms of its collaborators: Annexure K – Motor Drivers etc – Southern Queensland Annexure L – Boarding Schools, Residential Colleges and Other Non-Commercial Accomodation – SE Division Annexure E – Teachers Award Non-Government Schools Queensland Lutheran Schools Single Enterprise Agreement 2016 . – CUTS to Teacher Hours of Duty protections for some teachers Annexure G – Miscellaneous Workers` Award – State Discover LEQ`s reduction plan, Controls – counterparties to www.qieu.asn.au/stopthecuts annexure H – Greenkeeping Industry Award – State Annexure J – Building Products, Manufacture and Minor Maintenance Award – State – CUTS to key employment protections, which ensure procedural fairness and natural justice for all employees. LEQ`s approach to reducing, controlling and limiting current conditions is an affront to Queensland`s Lutheran teachers and school leaders, who have demonstrated the highest commitment and professionalism in the final months of the Covid-19 crisis. In solidarity with the Independent Education Union Qld – NT Branch, please sign your megaphone petition – anyone in Australia can sign.