Social & Community Services

Over 150 past and present workers at Bendigo family services centre St Luke's have recently shared a $1 million back pay decision after it was found employees were not receiving all of their EBA entitlements for working shifts. Management at St Luke's – a SACS workplace under the Anglicare umbrella…

The BoysTown Enterprise Agreement has been approved by the Fair Work Commission and will commence today, 4 June 2013 and will nominally expire on 4 June 2016. The new agreement provides a number of additional benefits to you including: A number of new allowances such as travel, transport, excursion, sleepover…

BoysTown employees have spoken and overwhelmingly voted in favour of the new Agreement. We are pleased to announce that the proposed new BoysTown Agreement negotiated between the ASU, employee representatives and BoysTown management has resoundingly been given your tick of approval.   Download the full bulletin below    Boystown Bulletin…

The ASU is pleased to report that we have finalised a new Enterprise Agreement with BoysTown. On 14 April 2012 the ASU, along with employee bargaining representatives, reached in principle agreement on all terms and conditions for the new BoysTown Enterprise Agreement (EA). We have been working closely with BoysTown…

The union representing community sector workers has welcomed the news from the State Government about the size of its commitment to a wage rise for thousands of South Australian community sector workers. Australian Services Union SA Secretary Katrine Hildyard says the SA Government will provide more than $119m extra to…

Since the last bulletin the ASU negotiating team met twice with BoysTown management. We are making good progress toward a number of our claims including some allowances, a casual conversion clause, training and health and wellbeing practices and the default super scheme. There remain some claims where the ASU and…

Negotiations for the TSF Social Enterprise Agreement 2013 continued on 15th February. During the meeting TSF management outlined issues they wished to address as follows (ASU response in red italics): Amend TSF Vision and Mission Statement. Agreed. Remove reference to awards. Agreement to clearer reference to underpinning awards: Social, Community, Home…

The ASU negotiating team met again with BoysTown and employee representatives on 01 February 2013. Despite some time lost due to the floods, we are still making progress towards a final agreement. However, while we have managed work through some of the claims, there remain some key issues such as…

Negotiations for the TSF Social Enterprise Agreement 2013 commenced on 1st February and at the meeting the ASU served the following Log of Claims: 5% wage increase per year. 2 year agreement. Roll over of all current agreement conditions. Inclusion of a table that translates the agreement classification structure to…

On 15 January 2013 the ASU bargaining team met with BoysTown management and employee representatives for the third round of EA negotiations. The ASU negotiating team and management have begun working through our log of claims. We are making some progress on our smaller claims, but our more substantive claims…