Your Jetstar National Negotiating Team (NNT) met with the company again on 10th December 2014 and we had a long in-depth discussion on their current offer to settle the EBA. There are still a lot of issues that are outstanding that need Jetstar to change their position on or clarify. Outstanding is: Proper classification of…
Today the Fair Work Commission handed down its long awaited decision on Modern Award coverage for Tabcorp employees. You will recall that the ASU had applied to have the Tabcorp Wagering Employees Award 2003 made into a Modern Award – effectively meaning the current Award would continue to apply as the safety net of Award…
Your ASU representatives met with the company on 1 December to discuss the recent payroll review and to table the petition signed by so many Virgin staff members. The ASU strongly believes that Virgin should not deduct incorrectly credited annual leave from team members. Incorrect leave balances have occurred due to company errors, yet Virgin…
That is what your ASU delegates think about the recent cancellation of our EBA meeting on 11th November less than 24 hours before it was scheduled and the failure of the company to put their offer to us in writing. These matters coupled with the failure to finalise the payroll review mean only one…
The Australian Services Union Victorian Private Sector Branch (ASU) will host a forum of local state election candidates in Geelong tomorrow morning to discuss the future of Avalon Airport because current state government support is due to expire in April 2015, leaving the future of the Avalon Airport operation uncertain. ASU Branch Secretary, Ingrid Stitt,…
All employees, other than casuals, are entitled to sick leave when they are unable to work due to personal injury or illness. The amount of paid sick leave you are entitled to is covered under your EBA. Should you need to provide documentation to support your leave, Statutory Declarations (Stat Decs) as well as medical…
Your Jetstar National Negotiating Team met with the company on 15th September 2014 and 21st October 2014 to see if we can get any closer to finalizing an agreement. The company continues to say that they want an 18 month pay freeze so that no pay rise would be payable until 1st April 2015. We…
The Australian Services Union applauds the commitment by the crossbench Senators to stand with Australian workers against the Abbot Government’s unfair changes to the Fair Entitlements Guarantee (FEG). FEG (formerly knows as GEERS) was one of the central safeguards that ensured workers who were caught up with the Ansett collapse got assistance when they were…
ASU delegates and officials met with Qantas Telephone Sales and HR management in Melbourne on 29th October 2014 for an update on the redeployment, redundancy and other issues arising from the closure of Brisbane and Melbourne Centres. As usual there were more questions than answers and disappointingly there is still misinformation and inconsistencies with information…
The Australian Services Union Victorian Private Sector branch will protest at the Qantas AGM in Melbourne tomorrow, calling on the company to reverse its decision to offshore call centre jobs to New Zealand. ASU Victorian Branch Secretary Ingrid Stitt said that over 500 Victorian ground staff and support roles have been made redundant since February…
That is the key message members are giving us about the recent email from Virgin Australia saying that team members around the country have “wrongly” been credited annual leave and they are taking it back. Back in March 2014 a payroll reconfiguration saw annual leave deducted from hundreds of staff – this was quickly reversed…
In a Change.org petition released today, Australians are giving voice to their frustration with the national carrier which recently announced it was reneging on its promise made in May this year to not offshore more call centre jobs. The petition calls on Joyce and the Board to immediately reverse this decision and abide by their…