On 17 July CPSU wrote to Airservices Australia, advising results of a workplace petition signed by a majority of AusFIC staff.
The petition:
asked management to confirm staff entitlement for night shift and day
workers respectively, to 30/25 recreational leave days per year irrespective
of shift length worked;
called for an audit of employees' recreational leave accrual and
deductions and determine which employees are owed recreational leave credits
and how much.
advised management that CPSU was authorised to take further action on
behalf of members to resolve the issue.
Management response
CPSU received correspondence from management dated 23 July addressing staff
requests for an audit. In the letter, management requested for two weeks to be
able to complete a comprehensive investigation.
Time’s up
The two week investigation period has now lapsed and to date, we have not
received any correspondence from management. It’s worth remembering that this
issue has been raised in various forums and by various methods on a number of
occasions, going back to April 2007.
CPSU wrote to Airservices yesterday to get written agreement that each AusFIC
staff immediately receive in writing the following information:
results of the audit should disclose your leave entitlement per year of
service;
your total entitlement to annual leave in hours, days and weeks;
your total amount of annual leave taken in hours, days and weeks;
your unused entitlement to annual leave in hours, days and weeks;
whether when the above factors are aggregated, each employee received
the benefit of 5/6 weeks annual leave per year (depending on shift pattern).
CPSU also requested an overall aggregate result of the audit analysis for
further examination. The letter requested a response from Airservices to within
48 hours or CPSU would file a dispute with the Industrial Relations Commission.
Update
CPSU has since received communications from Ian Harding advising that ‘the
audit is all but done’ and that he has a meeting in Canberra on Thursday to be
briefed on the outcome, methodology and plans to develop appropriate
communication and material for staff.
Finish the job
CPSU believes that management need to show more urgency in resolving this
long running issue. It was only through the hard work of CPSU delegates - with
the support of other union members – that management finally agreed to an audit
in the first place. It’s high time that management repaid the patience of staff,
by setting out a clear path to resolving this issue: no more excuses, no more
delays.
