Enshrining the right to stay home in long-term agreements could delay a traditional return to the office for many years to come.
The Finance Sector Union, which is campaigning for a 6 per cent wage increase for bank staff, is pushing Westpac and NAB to give employees the right to negotiate with their managers over remote working entitlements in a condition to be written in as part of their enterprise agreement.
The National Tertiary Education Union’s national assistant secretary, Gabe Gooding, said almost all branches were pushing for work-from-home rights in agreements being negotiated between universities and some 27,000 professional staff around the country. He said that while universities had conflicting interests in trying to maintain campus life while protecting staff health, they were conscious “a commonsense approach needs to be taken, particularly in light of what we’re experiencing with this current wave”.
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