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Whitcoulls’ Workers Deserve Fair Treatment
Whitcoulls’ Workers Deserve Fair Treatment
The CTU is alarmed at the treatment of Whitcoulls’ workers who are being pressured into signing agreements that take away any future entitlements to redundancy pay or rights on termination of employment.
Peter Conway, CTU Secretary, said today “the normal procedure is for workers to transfer across with their same terms and conditions including any redundancy entitlements. Instead these workers have had the squeeze put on them over a weekend to sign away their future entitlement to redundancy pay.”
“If they don’t sign the agreement, they will be deemed to have resigned, that’s hardly a choice. This isn’t fair treatment and places these workers in a very vulnerable position.” Said Peter Conway.
The CTU welcomes the fact that Pascoes are offering jobs to these workers but this sort of ‘take it or leave it’ approach to a new employment agreement when workers are vulnerable is totally unfair.
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