Voting for the ASU’s Menzies Aviation (Sydney and Melbourne) Customer Service Enterprise Agreement 2014 closed on 2nd April 2015 and we are pleased to advise that it was overwhelmingly endorsed by customer service staff in Sydney and Melbourne with 98.8% of staff who voted in the ballot voting to approve the agreement. This is an…
Laws that benefit women in the workplace need to be strengthened so that female staff are less dependent on an employer’s whim. Not too many people will be surprised by Tony Abbott’s decision to ditch his signature policy on paid parental leave. It was an unpopular policy that seemed to disproportionately favour women who needed…
The Tabcorp – ASU On Course and Special Events EBA is due to be renegotiated and as always the ASU is seeking your feedback on the issues important to you. The current agreement expires at the end of June this year and the ASU is keen to get started on renegotiations on your behalf. We…
Jetstar staff have voted overwhelmingly to endorse the ASU EBA 5 deal negotiated and recommended by the ASU’s Jetstar National Negotiating Team. The external company conducting the ballot, Elections Australia Pty Ltd, today declared that ASU EBA 5 has been approved by the majority of staff. 84.87% of staff who voted, voted in favour of the Agreement A big thank…
ASU Airport delegates met in Sydney with company reps on 17th March 2015 for a discussion about a series of “trials” Qantas is undertaking to board passengers via the backstairs of aircraft. The meeting was at our request as management failed to consult the ASU either locally or nationally about the trial or its implications.…
Recently the Victorian Off Course Agency Association approached the ASU to commence discussions regarding introducing an Enterprise Agreement (EA) to staff. An EA is a document that contains all your legally binding pay and conditions at work. How this came about Last year VOCAA made an application to make your old Enterprise Award a new…
ASU members at Menzies have voted overwhelmingly to endorse the EBA deal for staff at Sydney and Melbourne negotiated by the ASU’s National Negotiating Team, following workplace meetings explaining the offer. As a result the ASU is recommending the EBA to ASU members for their approval. The ASU has advised Menzies management that the deal…
Following further representations to Qantas by the union, the ASU has received confirmation that Qantas will honour the 6 month exclusion period for staff who have been made redundant from Australian call centres who are seeking re-employment within the Qantas Group. This comes after changes to Qantas group policy at the end of 2014 which…
It’s been an endurance event, but after lengthy negotiations we finally have an agreement which ASU members have endorsed in meetings across Australia. The proposed EBA provides a number of significant improvements in some important terms and conditions of our work. As ASU members now endorse the EBA we encourage all staff to vote ‘YES’…
The ASU has been dealing with a number of enquiries regarding hours and reasonable overtime. The queries have mainly come from individuals who have an individual contract as part of their conditions of employment. Some of these employees on individual contracts are also not covered by either an Enterprise Agreement or Award usually because of…
The Abbott Government recently announced they would ask the Productivity Commission to conduct a review of Australia’s ‘workplace relations framework’. We’ve been asked by many members what this actually means. Simply put, it means the Abbott Government is seeking to have the Commission review the laws and the Federal Government institutions that oversee these laws…
The technical developments of the last twenty years or so have forever changed our workplaces and the way we work, such that the break between work and leisure has become a blur. The ASU has been dealing with a number of cases recently involving social media, GPS tracking, camera monitoring in call centres and surveillance…