ASU Delegates and Officials met with Slater & Gordon Management in our bi-monthly Joint Consultative Committee. The focus of the meeting was centred around COVID-19 related matters. Slater & Gordon Management presented details of their COVID Safe planning and advised that they had 12 plans in total covering all of the Firm’s offices nationally. The…
On the 10th of July we had our second EBA meeting. While the first EBA meeting on the 26th of June was largely administrative in nature, in this second meeting we performed the important task of tabling our respective Log of Claims and having an introductory discussion regarding the contents of each log (please find…
On Thursday 25th January, Slater and Gordon held a second briefing session about the proposed changes to the incentive scheme. The ASU was not aware that a meeting had already been held prior to this date and only got invited to the latter two meetings after we discovered that they had been scheduled for the…
What’s ahead for 2019? Throughout 2019 we expect that Slater’s intends to address and or overhaul many of their current policies and practices associated with you as employees. Whether that is a refresh of policies and procedures, incentive scheme reviews, market comparison of classifications and rates of pay or the multitude of other issues that…
We are pleased to advise that the Fair Work Commission has approved the new ASU/Slater and Gordon Lawyers’ Agreement on 22nd January 2018. The Agreement commences operation on Monday 29th January 2018. Payroll have confirmed that the back pay will be processed as part of the first full pay period under the new Agreements. Back…
BREAKING: Fair Work Commission Rejects Aerocare Agreement as it does not meet legal standards Today the Fair work commission has rejected the substandard Aerocare agreement that was opposed by the Australian Services Union and the TWU. All along we have maintained this agreement would not meet the strict tests set down by the court and…
Commission hearing for the AHSA agreement has been adjourned until 15 May 2017. The Fair Work Commission asked all party’s to make themselves available this morning to have a brief conference via phone to determine the main issues to be discussed at tomorrow’s Commission hearing. During this conference it became apparent that more time was…
On Thursday 6 April 2017 Dnata’s AHSA and Altara’s AGR substandard EBA’s are listed for a hearing in the Fair Work Commission. The battle lines are drawn! This Thursday 6 April 2017 is a key time in determining whether or not the 2 new Agreements get approved by the Fair Work Commission. Your Union, the…
“Come back to the table when you agree” – that’s what the Maurice Blackburn negotiators told your national negotiating team at today’s EBA meeting. In meetings of members over the last couple of weeks across the country you have told us that: The firm’s pay offer is not good enough and they should not treat Support Staff and Lawyers…
It was a sea of RED at Maurice Blackburn last Wednesday when employees donned their red shirts, red dresses and red ribbons in support of fair and equitable wage increases for all staff in their current EBA negotiations with management. The Maurice Blackburn Remuneration (REM) Committee were meeting that day to consider wage outcomes for…
Your ASU National Negotiating Team (NNT) met face to face with the firm’s negotiators for the first time on 7th & 8th December 2015 in Melbourne. This was our fourth meeting and it was great to have the whole team together in the room. On the first day of negotiations we discussed the firm’s claims…
The ASU has worked hard to extract promises from Slater and Gordon about the integration of Nowicki Carbone into the main S+G business. Much of this work has been done through the negotiation of the Lawyers Enterprise Agreement at Slater and Gordon. Subject to approval of the Agreement, the following provides a basic outline of…