Unions win more time before ABC redundancies
Fair Work Commission rules ABC should extend consultation with staff into the new year.
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Redundancy negotiations with ABC staff will continue into the new year, but staff at risk will be advised they are in ABC “pools” for redundancy.
The Fair Work Commission ruled the broadcaster should extend consultation with staff, but allow any who wish to be made redundant before Christmas to make themselves known by Friday.
Staff in the pools who are at risk of redundancy must also be told by Wednesday, December 17.
A joint Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance and Community and Public Sector Union statement said: “MEAA and the CPSU argued that the pool process was inadequate, unfair and lacked transparency. We argued consultation was nowhere near enough advanced to commence a redundancy process and invited the Commission to stop the process until consultation was further advanced in the New Year.
“While the Commission did not endorse the pool process, they were also concerned to allow a process for people to depart if they had been identified as being potentially redundant and redundancy was their preferred option.”
Source: Mumbrella
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It was a dispute resolution hearing in which Fair Work made recommendations.
“In making these recommendations, the commission makes no comment or determination on the validity or otherwise of the redundancy process engaged in by the ABC, and in that regard the unions reserve their rights” (SMH)
What they mean in they will do what-ever is in their power to force voluntary redundancies on the ABC at the request of the union. They are trying to force the ABC into let their valuable staff take massive redundancies now and go, and work elsewhere, so that the less valuable staff can’t be let go.