Office of the Commissioner for Public Employment

Bulletin 8 - reminder to vote - issued 18 September 2025

The ballot for the proposed Northern Territory 2025-2029 Enterprise Agreement closes at 10 am on Wednesday 24 September 2025.

If you haven’t already, then I encourage you to take part in the ballot by casting your vote prior to the ballot closing date.

All employees covered by the current agreement are entitled to vote. You do not have to be a union member to participate in the ballot.

You should have received an email link to cast your confidential vote.  If you have not received this, please contact Vero Voting at support@verovoting.com.au or 1300 702 898.

The Vero ballot process ensures all employee personal details remain confidential with end-to-end encryption and anonymity to ensure integrity of the ballot process.

Make your vote count

Every vote is important.

If the majority of employees who vote, endorse this offer, and the agreement is approved by the Fair Work Commission, this offer provides for pay rises to be backdated to 14 August 2025.

If the vote isn’t supported, the provisions within the current agreement will continue to apply. This means that you will not have access to the proposed improved conditions, including the 3% annual salary increase, and in line with the Wages Policy there will not be any back payments of salary increases.

Your pay, your future

Find out the details of the offer PDF (230.4 KB) you are voting on.

This offer maintains your existing package of competitive leave and other entitlements, and including a range of additional improvements such as:

  • 3% per annum salary increase, which is equivalent to 12.55% over 4 years and is the maximum allowed under the wages policy.
  • access to overtime for staff up to SAO2/SP2 classifications
  • generous uplift in allowances for professional employees PDF (1.4 MB) - read the additional information for professional incentive PDF (2.3 MB).
  • new technical incentives PDF (996.2 KB) in recognising expertise and rewarding excellence for technical employees.
  • new leave entitlements – organ donor leave, long service leave and plasma leave
  • new Katherine and Alice Springs retention allowance
  • even better flexible work conditions
  • new EO2 salary range for non-contract officers acting higher duties in executive contract roles.

More Information

Links to the proposed agreement, explanatory notes and relevant documents referenced in the proposed agreement are available in bulletin 6. There should also be hard copies of the proposed agreement and explanatory notes available in your workplace.

For further information on the proposed agreement, the explanatory notes, or the ballot process, contact OCPE on email enquiries.ocpe@nt.gov.au or phone 8999 4282.

All bulletins and information sheets on the progress of bargaining and proposals for the new agreement can be accessed on the NTPS General Enterprise Agreement.

I will advise employees of the ballot result via a bulletin that will be posted on this website.

Nicole Hurwood
Commissioner for Public Employment
September 2025