Employee information provided to ballot agents in Enterprise Agreement bargaining

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Dear Department of Education,

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

BENNETT,Malcolm, Department of Education

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Dear Mr Smith.

 

I wish to acknowledge your FOI request to this department dated 16
February 2017. You have requested the following:

 

‘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'.’

 

Your request will be processed as soon as possible.

 

Regards. 

 

 

Mal Bennett
Senior Government Lawyer
Corporate Legal Team | Child Care, Schools and Corporate Legal
Australian Government Department of Education and Training

Phone: (02) 6121 5161 | Level 10, 50 Marcus Clarke Street Canberra

 

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Dear Mr Smith

Please find attached decision and document in response to your request below.

Kind regards

FOI Team
Department of Education and Training

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