Union accuses SkyCity CEO of misleading public
Union accuses SkyCity CEO of misleading public over workers lost shifts
Unite Union has accused SkyCity CEO Nigel Morrison of misleading the public over the cut in hours for a staff member who raised the issue at the company's AGM.
Carolyn Alpine accused the company of cutting her regular shifts from two to one a week. The solo mother, has worked at the company for 15 years. Speaking through tears in her voice she told the AGM: "I’ve been part time for 11 years, working for 2 shifts per week which, being a solo mother, has got me through. You are now dictating that I can only have 1 shift a week, no consultation, nothing, just suddenly turned up on my roster. I can’t live on 1 shift a week."
“In the NZ Herald today Mr Morrison repeatedly misinformed the public in an opinion piece especially written for the occasion” said Unite Union's SkyCity organiser John Crocker.
“We have the company documents to prove that what he said was simply untrue”, continued Mr Crocker. (see attachment
In the NZ Herald Mr Morrison writes: “The staff member has not had her shifts reduced from two to one a week” and “She has been offered between two and four shifts a week.”
“Not true," says Mr Crocker. “Carolyn had worked a guaranteed minimum of two shifts a week for 11 years. She was given rosters in September that included four future weeks with only one shift allocated. She had to ask for additional shifts which she received for two of the weeks. For the other two weeks she worked one 8-hour shift only.
Mr Morrison writes: “I need to stress also that we have most certainly not reduced her pay.”
“Not true”, says Mr Crocker. “Carolyn's pay was reduced from 16 to 8 hours for at least those two weeks.”
Mr Morrison claimed that all table games staff are being asked “to work a more flexible roster, across the week, to better reflect the times when people want to visit our casino”.
“Carolyn Alpine has worked the two busiest shifts of the week on Friday and Saturday night at the companies request for 11 years” says Mr Crocker. “These are shifts that many staff want to avoid. Having staff dedicated to these shifts that want to work them makes sense. It suited both sides for 11 years.”
“How Mr Morrison expected to go unchallenged on this lie when the information is available is perplexing, and he cannot claim to be misinformed as the union wrote to him the day before his article was published to correct his facts,” said Mr Crocker.
http://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/1410/Carolyn_Alpine_work_record_and_roster.pdf
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