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Shame fileTeachers offered AWAsTeachers at Shalom College in Townsville have been offered AWAs.The Queensland Independent Education Union's (QIEU's) analysis of the AWAs states teachers would be worse off, including that automatic pay increases would be no longer guaranteed, hours of work would increase and employees would only be entitled to four weeks annual leave. QIEU Assistant General Secretary Ros McLennan said membership at the school was close to 100 per cent and employees had consistently and publicly expressed their collective view calling on management to pull their AWAs and renegotiate a collective agreement.
AWAs stripping awardsForty five per cent of Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) have stripped away all of the award conditions that the Federal Government promised would be "protected by law" under WorkChoices legislation, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on April 17.The Herald's investigation revealed a third of AWAs lodged during the first six months of WorkChoices provided no wage rises during the life of the agreements and that shift loadings were stripped from 76 per cent of the agreements. Annual leave loading was stripped from 59 per cent of the agreements, incentive payments and bonuses from 70 per cent of AWAs and declared public holidays from 22.5 per cent of the individual contracts.
Monorail employees offered AWAsSydney Monorail employees have been offered AWAs which would make them up to $84 per week worse off, according to the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union.LHMU Executive Vice President Jim Lloyd said the AWA disadvantages employees in that it has lower weekend, shift and overtime rates than the award. It also has lower public holiday rates and no leave loading. Mr Lloyd said Sydney Monorail workers were strongly opposed to the introduction of lower standards and were campaigning to get their employer, Veolia, to negotiate with them. The monorail workers had been on a state award until the WorkChoices legislation converted it into a notional agreement. When the workers then set about trying to bargain for a collective agreement they were presented with the offer of AWAs.
Tristar updateThe Federal Court case alleging the unlawful dismissal of Tristar Steering and Suspension Australia supervisor Martin Peek began in the Federal Court on April 20.The matter was due back before the court on May 2 and 3. Meanwhile, the Federal Court has taken out an injunction on the NSW Industrial Relations Inquiry into Tristar while the Federal Court hears a separate case where the Office of Workplace Services alleges Tristar has breached the Workplace Relations Act 1996 in relation to 26 employees at its Marrickville premises. This matter will be back before the Federal Court on May 11.
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