JobKeeper Changes & Extended Scheme The Federal Government has made some important changes to JobKeeper. The good news is that the JobKeeper Payment scheme has been extended until 28 March 2021 to ensure more Australians can stay in jobs and more businesses can survive the economic fallout of this pandemic. However, the bad news is…
Maurice Blackburn Employees Agreement 2020 has been voted upon and endorsed The ASU is pleased to announce that Maurice Blackburn employees nationally have participated in a vote and have agreed to the proposed Maurice Blackburn Employees’ Agreement 2020 negotiated by the Union. 98.8% of employees who voted last week, voted in favour of the Agreement.…
ASU win! Federal sides with unions in Qantas JobKeeper case On 24 September 2020, the Federal Court ruled that Qantas misinterpreted S789GDA of the Fair Work Act when calculating JobKeeper payments. This is a landmark win for ASU members at Qantas. The ASU, along with the FAAA and TWU, brought the case after Qantas short-changed…
Dnata Catering to cut up to 1000 Jobs across the country You may be aware of an announcement made yesterday by Dnata Catering confirming that it will be making approximately 1000 of its Catering employees redundant on a National level across various ports. In Melbourne alone, the numbers to be made redundant are approximately 310…
Proposed consolidation of Contact Centre Investigation & Express Parcels Freight Solutions Teams On Friday last week, our Union received correspondence from the business that it had plans to create one integrated Express Parcels – Freight Investigation Team at its Melbourne Airport Operations. Our Union made contact with Toll and requested to meet in order to get some…
Qantas Airports Update Today ASU delegates and officials met with the company reps to consult about the EOIs for redundancy results and the binding offers that have been accepted, those that have not and what the process is from here on the issues of Special Leave without Pay and temporary conversion from Full time to…
Bain Capital confirmed as new owner of Virgin Australia The Second Creditors Meeting was held this morning and creditors overwhelmingly voted to endorse the sale of Virgin Australia to new owner Bain Capital. This is a significant milestone for ASU members at Virgin as it means the company will continue to exist and continue to…
Qantas and Jetstar decide to put out to tender some Airports ground operations work On 25 August 2020, Qantas Group made the shocking announcement that it intends to consider outsourcing Australian Airport ground operations performed by Qantas Airlines, QGS and Jetstar Services staff working in ramp, baggage handling and fleet presentation at 11 Australian Airports.…
Dnata members deserve better and our union is leading the way As the Industry continues to struggle through the current crisis and work remains scarce in most sectors, no-one is feeling the pain more than dnata workers that have been stood down and remain ineligible for the Jobkeeper payment as a result of the Federal…
Victorian Childcare Changes and Flexibility at MB ASU members at Maurice Blackburn will be aware that we have been meeting fortnightly with management at the COVID-19 committee to discuss matters related to the pandemic and the impact it is having on workers. At a meeting of this committee held on Tuesday 10 August, ASU delegates…
Qantas EOIs update Expressions of interest for redundancy, leave without pay and also redeployment have now gone out in most corporate areas – below is a table that tells you when the EOIs went out to affected employees and when the EOIs are due back. Not all areas in these business units are affected but…
EBA negotiations to proceed The ASU have advised members since April 2020 that S&G and the ASU have jointly been delaying the EBA negotiations because of the ongoing pandemic. The ASU has meet with management on a monthly basis to review the situation with a view to commence bargaining when circumstances are clearer. However, at our…