2017-05-09 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                               9 MAY 2017



BRANCH ACTIVITIES                      RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                            CURRENT PRIORITIES                          THE NEXT QUARTER
Workplace Relations                       Meeting of the Workplace                     Evaluating implications of the new        Analyse the impacts of legislative
                                            Consultative Committee which is                Qld. IR Act and new LG Award                changes and the best way forward
                                            functioning well in the lead up to the         before determining our approach to          for Noosa in the Certified Agreement
                                            commencement of Certified                      the next Certified Agreement.               process.
                                            Agreement negotiations.                      Develop in house training and
                                          New LG Award and Qld IR Act                    briefing sessions on the new Act and
                                            effective from 1 March 2017 have               for HR policies.
                                            been reviewed.
Business as Usual activities              Provision of HR advice & coaching to         Partner with Supervisors and              Continued advice and support to
                                            Managers & Directors on staff matters          Managers to develop effective teams         internal customers.
                                            including WHS, training needs,                 and a happy safe working                  Implications for payroll from the new
                                            performance improvement, position              environment.                                LG award and new super choices.
                                            redesigns & service review
                                                                                                                                     Implementation of the new
                                            considerations.
                                                                                                                                       organisation structure and
                                          Co-ordination of injury management                                                         establishment changes.
                                            claims and suitable duties
                                            programmes incl. liaison with LGW.

Community Engagement
Provision of Community Engagement         Organisation of monthly meetings to          Strengthen messaging for garden           Further consider and initiate media
(CE) support to major projects incl.        guide media activity                           bin roll out and garden waste &             requirements relating to mandatory
Towards Zero Waste: Education and         Coordination of design, production             recycling as directed by the Waste          garden waste bins.
Behaviour Change as a result of the         and insertion of colour press adds.            team                                      Coordinate the 2nd garden waste
first Community Jury                                                                     Coordination of community and               bin social media campaign.
                                          Issued numerous media releases &
                                            social media posts to encourage                media response to social media
                                            recycling & voluntary uptake of garden         campaign for garden waste bin roll
                                            waste bin strategically designed to            out.
                                            align with outcomes of Council
                                            meetings.
                                          Co-ordination of the development a
                                            social media campaign for roll out of 3
                                            bin system & a series of 3 SM videos.
                                          Created new website page &edited
                                            existing pages.
                                          Edited & reworded a set of FAQs &
                                            uploaded to website.



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