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10 March 2001 |
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NewsChinks Emerge in Carr’s Call Centre Stonewall
There's been a breakthrough in the push to have NSW Government departments and authorities embrace the ACTU Call Centre code, with a tiny authority becoming the first to accept the minimum standards.
The board of the Superannuation Administration Corporation -a state-owned corporation whose shareholding ministers include the Treasurer Michael Egan - has accepted the code in principle. The board has become the first government body to "agree and accept" that the ACTU Call Centre Code of Conduct is an appropriate and acceptable minimum core condition. The Corporation engages a call centre for customer inquiries about all public sector superannuation in NSW. The contact centre employs 90 people, about 40 of whom are employed in the call centre. Labor Council's representative on the Corporation, Fire Brigade Employees' Union's Simon Flynn, says he was able to gain unanimous support for the ACTU Code. "I raised the issue at the board and argued the case - I don't see why other union reps on state boards can't do the same," Flynn says. "It is the obligation of all employers and directors of a company to ensure that call centre employees are treated with the dignity and respect that management afford itself. "I really hope that this is just the first of many government authorities who decide to fulfill their obligations to workers in call centres and help establish a minimum set of standards in the industry. Following the breakthrough, signs are emerging that the Government is ready to negotiate on the code across all departments. Industrial relations Minister John Della Bosca told Workers Online that, despite the lack of action to date, the Government supports the general concepts and principals of the ACTU Charter and Standards Code for call centres. "I intend to meet with the Labor Council to discuss the issue," Della Bosca says." The Government is currently reviewing the code."
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