If you are injured at work your employer is responsible for paying you 100% of your normal wages/salary for the first seven days you have to take off.
Your employer is not allowed to deduct this from your Sick Leave.
After 7 days ACC will then calculate what your entitlement will be.
When the SFWU Collective Agreement was negotiated with SkyCity it was agreed that a that a special $150 payment would be made to cleaners as a one off payment to compensate them for dealing with biological waste.
The Company insisted in the terms of settlement that it "reserves the right to offer the same or similar rates of pay or other incentive to other cleaning staff members who are not covered by the CEA being negotiated between the parties" and "The above one-off offer is on the proviso that it will also be applied to IEA staff."
The company subsequently decided to not give the $150 payment to SEA-Unite members. They claimed they had an agreement with the SFWU not to pass it on. The SFWU have assured us and told the company they have no objection to all staff receiving the payment.
The company still refuses to pass it on to our members.
GIVEN THESE FACTS, NO SEA-UNITE MEMBERS NEED FEEL OBLIGED TO HANDLE BIOLOGICAL WASTE
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