BRANCH ANNUAL ACCOUNTS
The Branch is required to publish our annual accounts and an audit report each year. These were presented to our Annual General Meeting this year. The General Purpose Financial report and the Audit Report can be found here.
Please contact us by return email if you have any questions or need a copy..

OPTUS - PREFILLING ANNUAL LEAVE
Check your annual leave applications. Optus may have prefilled an application for you - without your knowledge.

OPTUS - PREFILLING ANNUAL LEAVE
Following the response from Optus (Bulletin last week) we received further information from members. We have written to Optus as follows:

As we noted before, our complaint is that Optus is going further than simply asking staff to take annual leave.
We have a number of reports now that Optus has prefilled annual leave for virtually all staff on Monday 25 January 2021 - the day before the Australia Day Holiday.
We were also advised that Optus did not and has not informed staff that Optus has put them on annual leave.
We were also advised that some (not all in this case) had annual leave prefilled for the Xmas period.
Our view is that Optus must not prefill annual leave.
We therefore seek that Optus remove any leave prefilled by Optus in stall members records.
We seek your confirmation within 7 days.

WORKCHOICES AGAIN - NEW LAWS PROPOSED
The Morrison Government's new omnibus IR Bill allows employers to make agreements that cut the wages and conditions of workers. The Bill allows the Fair Work Commission to approve agreements that do not meet the BOOT test for a period of two years. In addition, the Bill significantly undermines and weakens the current protections and safeguards workers have to prevent employers imposing unfair agreements, the Bill weakens these tests. Currently the FWC must ensure workers have access to an agreement for seven days and it must be properly explained to workers before voting, these requirements will be removed.

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CWU Telecommunications & Services Branch, Sydney City, NSW.