RBA staff swallow doctrinaire pay medicine 27 July 2015 4:09PM Ian Rogers Staff of the Reserve Bank of Australia have acceded to management demands that they agree to work longer hours in order to secure a modest pay rise of two per cent a year.The current RBA agreement provides for a 35-hour ordinary working week. At one stage RBA management wanted to lift this to 38 ordinary hours from July 2016, then softened it to 37.5 hours per week. The most recent RBA plan was for a 37-hour working week, to take effect from September 2016.In a posting at its website the Finance Sector Union said the final ballot outcome for the new workplace agreement was 454 staff (58 per cent in favour of the agreement while 331 staff (42 per cent) voted No. The FSU said 92 per cent of all eligible staff voted.