Employee information provided to ballot agents in Enterprise Agreement bargaining
Dear Australian Trade Commission,
This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act.
I request the document(s) which describe the data provided to the external organisation(s) responsible for conducting the ballot(s) for all Enterprise Agreements put to staff for a vote.
The scope of this request is limited only to those ballots undertaken for enterprise agreements which were proposed to take effect after 30 June 2014.
The document shall describe the data given to the ballot agent. For example, employee name, employee identification number, employee email address, etc. I exclude the data for specific employees here; I am only after the 'meta-data'.
If it assists you to treat this as an administrative request for information I encourage you to do so. Otherwise, please consider this a formal FOI request.
Yours faithfully,
James Smith
Dear Mr Smith,
I refer to your email dated 16 February 2017 where you are seeking 'data provided to the external organisation(s) responsible for conducting the ballot(s) for all Enterprise Agreements put to staff for a vote' ('Request’) under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (‘Act’).
Austrade received your request on 16 February. The 30 day statutory period for processing your request commenced from the day after that date ie from 17 February. You can expect a decision on this Request by 20 March. However, we will aim to have this Request finalised as early as possible.
The period of 30 days to process this FOI request may be extended if we need to consult third parties, impose a charge, or for other reasons. We will let you know if this occurs. We will seek to process your request as quickly as possible.
You will be notified of any charges that Austrade may decide to impose in relation to your request as soon as possible before we process any documents that fall within the scope of your request.
It is Austrade’s policy to withhold the mobile numbers of all government officials, and the names and contact details of government officials not in the Senior Executive Service (SES). We note you have excluded personal information of employees from your request.
Please also note that information released under the FOI Act may later be published online on our disclosure log (http://www.austrade.gov.au/FOI-disclosur...), subject to certain exceptions. (For example, personal information will not be published where this would be unreasonable.)
We will contact you using the email address you provided. Please advise if you would prefer us to use an alternative means of contact.
Kind regards,
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Berlina Lian | FOI Co-ordinator, Legal Services
Corporate Services
Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade)
Level 23, 201 Kent Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
T +61 2 9392 2000 | F +61 2 9392 2115
[Austrade request email] | http://www.austrade.gov.au
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-----Original Message-----
From: James Smith [mailto:[FOI #3086 email]]
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2017 7:51 PM
To: FOI Coordination Officer
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Employee information provided to ballot agents in Enterprise Agreement bargaining
Dear Australian Trade Commission,
This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act.
I request the document(s) which describe the data provided to the external organisation(s) responsible for conducting the ballot(s) for all Enterprise Agreements put to staff for a vote.
The scope of this request is limited only to those ballots undertaken for enterprise agreements which were proposed to take effect after 30 June 2014.
The document shall describe the data given to the ballot agent. For example, employee name, employee identification number, employee email address, etc. I exclude the data for specific employees here; I am only after the 'meta-data'.
If it assists you to treat this as an administrative request for information I encourage you to do so. Otherwise, please consider this a formal FOI request.
Yours faithfully,
James Smith
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Dear Mr Smith,
I have been advised an external organisation undertook the ballot on
Austrade's behalf. The data we provided is as follows:
Number Surname Preferred Name
Primary Email Address Secondary Email Address
Please note this information has been provided to you under administrative
access.
Kind regards,
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Berlina Lian | FOI Co-ordinator, Legal Services
Corporate Services
Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade)
Level 23, 201 Kent Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
T +61 2 9392 2000 | F +61 2 9392 2115
[1][Austrade request email] |
[2]http://www.austrade.gov.au
This email is confidential and use by any person other than the addressee
may be illegal. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender
immediately and delete it. The content is for information and carries no
warranty; as such, the addressee must exercise their own discretion in its
use. Australia’s anti-bribery laws apply overseas and Austrade will not
provide business related services to any party who breaches the law and
will report credible evidence of any breach. If you are travelling
overseas consult [3]http://www.smartraveller.gov.au - the Australian
Government's travel advisory service. Please consider the environment
before printing this email.
-----Original Message-----
From: FOI Coordination Officer
Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 2:02 PM
To: [FOI #3086 email]
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - Employee information
provided to ballot agents in Enterprise Agreement bargaining:
acknowledgement [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Dear Mr Smith,
I refer to your email dated 16 February 2017 where you are seeking 'data
provided to the external organisation(s) responsible for conducting the
ballot(s) for all Enterprise Agreements put to staff for a vote'
('Request’) under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (‘Act’).
Austrade received your request on 16 February. The 30 day statutory period
for processing your request commenced from the day after that date ie from
17 February. You can expect a decision on this Request by 20 March.
However, we will aim to have this Request finalised as early as possible.
The period of 30 days to process this FOI request may be extended if we
need to consult third parties, impose a charge, or for other reasons. We
will let you know if this occurs. We will seek to process your request as
quickly as possible.
You will be notified of any charges that Austrade may decide to impose in
relation to your request as soon as possible before we process any
documents that fall within the scope of your request.
It is Austrade’s policy to withhold the mobile numbers of all government
officials, and the names and contact details of government officials not
in the Senior Executive Service (SES). We note you have excluded personal
information of employees from your request.
Please also note that information released under the FOI Act may later be
published online on our disclosure log
([4]http://www.austrade.gov.au/FOI-disclosur...), subject to certain
exceptions. (For example, personal information will not be published where
this would be unreasonable.)
We will contact you using the email address you provided. Please advise if
you would prefer us to use an alternative means of contact.
Kind regards,
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Berlina Lian | FOI Co-ordinator, Legal Services Corporate Services
Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade)
Level 23, 201 Kent Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000 T +61 2 9392 2000 | F +61 2
9392 2115 [5][Austrade request email] |
[6]http://www.austrade.gov.au
This email is confidential and use by any person other than the addressee
may be illegal. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender
immediately and delete it. The content is for information and carries no
warranty; as such, the addressee must exercise their own discretion in its
use. Australia’s anti-bribery laws apply overseas and Austrade will not
provide business related services to any party who breaches the law and
will report credible evidence of any breach. If you are travelling
overseas consult [7]http://www.smartraveller.gov.au - the Australian
Government's travel advisory service. Please consider the environment
before printing this email.
-----Original Message-----
From: James Smith [[8]mailto:[FOI #3086 email]]
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2017 7:51 PM
To: FOI Coordination Officer
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Employee information provided to
ballot agents in Enterprise Agreement bargaining
Dear Australian Trade Commission,
This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act.
I request the document(s) which describe the data provided to the external
organisation(s) responsible for conducting the ballot(s) for all
Enterprise Agreements put to staff for a vote.
The scope of this request is limited only to those ballots undertaken for
enterprise agreements which were proposed to take effect after 30 June
2014.
The document shall describe the data given to the ballot agent. For
example, employee name, employee identification number, employee email
address, etc. I exclude the data for specific employees here; I am only
after the 'meta-data'.
If it assists you to treat this as an administrative request for
information I encourage you to do so. Otherwise, please consider this a
formal FOI request.
Yours faithfully,
James Smith
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Please use this email address for all replies to this request:
[9][FOI #3086 email]
Is [10][Austrade request email] the wrong address for
Freedom of Information requests to Australian Trade Commission? If so,
please contact us using this form:
[11]https://www.righttoknow.org.au/change_re...
This request has been made by an individual using Right to Know. This
message and any reply that you make will be published on the internet.
More information on how Right to Know works can be found at:
[12]https://www.righttoknow.org.au/help/offi...
If you find this service useful as an FOI officer, please ask your web
manager to link to us from your organisation's FOI page.
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