DETYA Certified Agreement

Part A - Scope and Objectives

1. Title
2. Objectives
3. Parties Bound and Covered

1. Title

1.1 This Agreement shall be known as the Securing Our Future - DETYA Certified Agreement 2000.

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2. Objectives

2.1 Over the life of this Agreement, the Department’s key priority in the DETYA Corporate Plan 1999 and the DETYA People Management Improvement Plan 2000, is to enhance our capacity to achieve identified corporate goals.

2.2 The aims in developing the Securing Our Future - DETYA Certified Agreement 2000 are to realise the objectives of both the Department and employees to create a foundation for work that is secure, satisfying and takes account of their private and family commitments and to provide fair and reasonable terms and conditions of employment.

2.3 The parties recognise that forging a strong link between this Agreement and the DETYA Corporate Plan will assist the Department in “Staying in Front” and continuing to move into the future as an organisation which will be better placed in providing policy advice, funding agencies, purchasing services and delivering some direct services in the areas of Indigenous Australian education and training programmes.

2.4 To meet the needs of the Government and the community in these areas, DETYA needs to be a high performing organisation that is able to develop, renew, deploy and retain a highly skilled and committed workforce that effectively supports its corporate priorities.

2.5 It is the Department’s intention to demonstrate, through this Agreement and the employment framework it creates, a commitment to the key organisational values in its Corporate Plan.

2.6 Accordingly, the Agreement seeks:

to improve and recognise the performance of individual people within DETYA, by drawing together elements such as performance management and classification structures and ensuring that our people are fairly rewarded within the Agreement;

to improve internal communication through strategies for better communications throughout DETYA and directly involving employees, reflecting and embedding a culture of open, ongoing and direct communication;

to improve the standing of the organisation by implementing the DETYA Corporate Plan and embedding the strategic framework, business planning and improved management systems for our work;

ongoing improvements in organisational performance and productivity and to ensure that we learn and adapt at least as fast as the world around us changes;

to continue building a structure that develops our people, fosters collaboration across work groups and flexibly allocates resources to emerging needs;

to underpin our performance and productivity by efficient and effective administration; and

to provide a stand-alone agreement that consolidates, fully comprehends and describes obligations and entitlements applicable to DETYA employees.

2.7 The Securing Our Future - DETYA Certified Agreement 2000 replaces the 1998 DEETYA Certified Agreement, the Department’s former certified agreement.

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3. Parties Bound and Covered

3.1 This Agreement is made between the Minister for Education, Training and Youth Affairs, employees referred to in clause 3.2, the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) and the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) under section 170LJ of the Workplace Relations Act 1996.

3.2 This Agreement applies to employees in DETYA employed under the Public Service Act 1999. It does not apply to:

the occupant of the office of the Secretary as defined in s.56 of the Act;

an SES employee as defined in s.34 of the Act;

an employee engaged for a specified period on a fixed term Senior Executive Service contract;

employees in DETYA whose salary is paid by another APS agency or organisation; or

employees who are covered by an Australian Workplace Agreement as defined in the Workplace Relations Act 1996.

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