The Union has received a number of queries from Tenix employees regarding their Sick Leave rights and entitlements. Many of these queries have complained about borderline bullying from managers who ask intrusive questions about the nature of the illness and a range of other matters. In very simple terms all YOU have to do is…
The first group of meetings begin today to explain to RAC employees the back payment / underpayment arrangements flowing from the de-annualised hours dispute. These meetings will occur variously with different shifts across the next week. Management will address each group of employees for 30 minutes and then Union members will meet with straight after…
After long arduous negotiations the day has finally arrived where the company is paying you what you’re owed. Dnata finally pays up After the ASU continually pursuing the company for a date that they intended to make the payment they have finally advised us that the back pay has been processed and should be in…
Following ASU members endorsing the proposal for a new Helloworld Agreement, you will know that voting has now commenced. The vote is being conducted by Elections Australia – an independent company that conducts enterprise agreement ballots. Your vote will be kept confidential. Voting will close at 4pm on Friday 11 December 2015, after which the…
We are pleased to advise that the four ASU / Dnata passenger services agreement for Qld, NSW, SA and Victoria were approved by the Fair Work Commission on Wednesday 2nd December 2015. This follows the overwhelming support for the agreements from staff who voted to approve them last month. These agreements come into force on…
As employees will be aware, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has ordered that the Australian Electoral Commission (“AEC”) run a secret ballot at Birdlife Australia to determine once and for all whether a majority of employees at Birdlife would like an Enterprise Agreement to be negotiated. The lead up The ASU conducted a majority support…
As mentioned in yesterdays information update an announcement was imminent about the appointment of an Administrator to work through the affairs of the Call Active business collapse. An announcement was made today that SV Partners have been appointed to the Administrator role. Some basic details about who SV Partners are can be obtained from their…
As all Union members will now know Call Active management announced late on Friday afternoon that the business would fold immediately and that as a result workers would be out of work and out of pocket on their basic employment entitlements. This is outrageous!!! Employees at Call Active rightfully feel let down as clearly the…
On 19 & 20 November 2015 Qantas Holidays employees were advised that the defined benefit superannuation fund would be closed on 29 February 2016. The ASU has met with management to be briefed on the changes and raise questions about the impact of the changes on our members. You will now have received an estimate…
You will know by now that Virgin has decided to implement a change that will see ground operations employees work an additional 6 hour shift in each 9 week roster cycle. This was because it was identified that for some time employees had not been working the correct amount of average weekly hours. Your ASU…
The ASU is aware that employees have expressed concern at the time taken to obtain approval from Government of the proposed 2015 Enterprise Agreement. After all, negotiations concluded some 10 weeks ago. Following a little applied pressure, the ASU is at least now able to communicate that the review process has reached the final stage.…
The ASU’s majority support application was heard by the Fair Work Commission on Friday 6th of November. The ASU had collected sufficient signatures to demonstrate that a strong majority of employees based in Melbourne wanted the ASU to bargain for an Enterprise Agreement at Birdlife Australia. However, we were only able to obtain a bare…