Dear Mr Smith,

I refer to your application in which you seek access to documents under
the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (ABS reference FOI 201617/55)
regarding:

o 
o 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 was received by the ABS on the 16 February 2017 and the 30
days statutory period for processing your request commenced from that
date. If this request will take longer than 30 days to process, we will
contact you to negotiate an extension of time.

You will be notified of any charges in accordance with the Freedom of
Information (Fees and Charges) Regulations, should they apply, in relation
to your request as soon as practicable.

Kind Regards

FOI Contact Officer 

Australian Bureau of Statistics 

(P) (02) 6252 7203 

(E) [1][ABS request email]   (W)  [2]www.abs.gov.au

The ABS Privacy Policy outlines how the ABS handles any personal
information that you provide to us.

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Dear Mr Smith

In response to your Freedom of Information request received on 16 February
2017, please find attached the formal response from the ABS.

(See attached file: FOI 201617-55 - Response.pdf)

In addition to the formal response from the ABS I would like to provide
the following information in regards to the Enterprise Agreement ballot
process:

o the ABS provides all staff with an opportunity to vote on proposed
enterprise agreements, including those staff on leave or otherwise not
attending the office. The process applied by the ABS complies with the
relevant provisions of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) which obligate
organisations to provide staff with the opportunity to vote on
proposed enterprise agreements that affect their employment;
o the ABS procured the services of an external organisation to conduct
the Enterprise Agreement ballot process consistent with the
Commonwealth Procurement Rules;
o the external organisation responsible for conducting the ballot/s is
required, under the conditions of engagement, to protect all
information obtained during the ballot process and to destroy this
information at the completion of the process; and
o to support the Enterprise Agreement process the ABS collected only the
minimum information required to support the process and released
only aggregate information for each state and territory and the total
result for the organisation.

Should you have any questions regarding this please feel free to contact
the ABS FOI Contact Officer on: 02 6252 7203 or email:
[1][ABS request email]

Kind Regards

FOI Contact Officer 

Australian Bureau of Statistics 

(P) (02) 6252 7203 

(E) [2][ABS request email]   (W)  [3]www.abs.gov.au

The ABS Privacy Policy outlines how the ABS handles any personal
information that you provide to us.

References

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2. mailto:[ABS request email]
3. http://www.abs.gov.au/