NATIONAL WAGE CASE DECISION THIS WEEK

Did you know that union members are the biggest reason the minimum wage goes up? Every year, the Fair Work Commission reviews the National Minimum Wage (and awards wages) to decide how much it should increase. The FWC decision will be revealed this Tuesday.
To help make the decision, the Commission asks for submissions from interested parties on what they think should happen. Every year, the union movement submits a claim for a fair increase that reflects the value of work and helps our lowest-paid workers with the cost of living. This year, union members are calling for a 4.5% increase to the minimum and award wages.
A 4.5% boost is what workers need to catch up on high post-pandemic era inflation and interest rates, and get ahead.

TZV SUPPORT STAFF EBA

We held the first meeting this week and decided on some administrative arrangements. Our committee members will meet this week to determine the draft log of claims and present then to TZV. We will receive the TZV log of claims this week.

TZV REDUNDANCY PACKAGE

We have received a number of questions about the redundancy policy. We have a CWU ESTA Database summary on our web page.
We disagree with the interpretation offered by TZV. (See item below). We say that the 4 or 5 weeks notice is on top of the 24 or 25 weeks set out in the Targeted separation package. We have approached Vic Government officers to obtain further information. We will have that next week.

TZV REDUNDANCY POLICY EXPLANATION

TZV response to our request for an interpretation:

In response to your request, TZV have always applied the State Government policy in relation to redundancies as follows; it is our view that the four or the five weeks (subject to the employee being over 45 years of age and been with the employer for a period of two years) is a direct provision of the NES notice requirements and is the first component which together with the severance component (two weeks for each year of service up to a maximum of 10 years) combines to make up the Targeted Separation Package.
Our reading is that section 6.2 of the Public Sector Industrial Relations Policies 2015 is a general section dealing with notice of termination requirements, generally.
As such we are not aware of any case law pertaining to any other construction.