Ms Anne Cahill Lambert AM
Chair
ACT Remuneration Tribunal
PO Box 964
CIVIC SQUARE ACT 2608

By email: remtrib@act.gov.au

Dear Ms Cahill Lambert

Thank you for the opportunity to make a submission to the Remuneration Tribunal’s annual review of remuneration, entitlements and allowances for members of the Legislative Assembly, executives, Directors-General, the Head of Service and full time holders of statutory offices.

Resettlement Allowance
The CPSU acknowledges the situation of Members of the Legislative Assembly who are
unsuccessful in being re-elected in ACT Government elections.

The CPSU supports a Resettlement Allowance of two weeks salary for each year of service during the preceding four year term of government.

Base Salary
CPSU maintains a strong view that base salary increases for MLA’s, executives, Directors-
General, the Head of Service and full time holders of statutory offices should be tied and limited to general ACTPS salary increases.

Such alignment would provide timely, transparent and appropriate increases commensurate with community expectations.

The CPSU notes the absence of any meaningful work value and remuneration review since the inception of self government, and that MLA’s did not get a salary increase during 2013. As such we would be unlikely to oppose a modest one-off 2014 salary adjustment prior to ACTPS pay alignment.

Yours sincerely

Vince McDevitt
ACT Regional Secretary