Working for the ABCC has a wide range of personal and financial benefits, including:
Parental leave
The ABCC believes in supporting staff that are approaching this exciting time in their lives. Both paid and unpaid maternity and paternity leave is available to employees. For more information please refer to section 6 of the
ABCC Enterprise Agreement - 99KB – Leave Provisions Clauses 202 to 229.
Flexible working arrangements
The ABCC is committed to providing flexibility in working arrangements to assist employees to balance their personal and work commitments. This may involve flexibility in negotiating working hours with your manager, flexitime, access to working from home or additional purchsed leave from one to eight weeks per annum.
Salary packaging
Salary packaging is available to all employees at the ABCC with the option to package items such as motor vehicles, fees to professional associations, airline lounge membership and more.
Christmas closedown
All ABCC offices are closed for business from midday on 24 December and for the days between Christmas and New Year's day which would otherwise be working days. This period is provided to employees as paid time off.
Learning and development opportunities
The ABCC is committed to providing opportunities for all employees to enhance their skills and qualifications through internal and external training. Support is also available for employees to undertake external study in agreed areas. More information can be found on the Your Development page.
Employee Assistance Program
The ABCC offers a program providing free and confidential counselling services for employees and their immediate family if required.
API Leisure & Lifestyle Employee Benefits Program
As a reward for all staff, the ABCC provides membership to the API Employee Benefits Program. Employees enjoy significant savings, convenience and preferential treatment through around 500 deals, which can be accessed at over 82,000 locations nationally.
Healthy Lifestyle Assistance
The ABCC offiers reimbursemesnts to staff for their expenditure on healthy lifestyle initiatives as set out in the ABCC Enterprise Agreement Clause 82.
Social Club
The ABCC has an active social club. In addition to regular social calendar events, the Social Club supports a variety of charity events such as:
- Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea
- Pink Ribbon Day
- Jeans for Genes Day
- Daffodil Day
- Stress Down Day.