atw: Re: Advice wanted for a newly unemployed technical writer
- From: "Fullerton, Elizabeth" <Elizabeth.Fullerton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 08:23:45 +1100
My company had signed an award agreement with APESMA which came into =
effect one week before they went under (!) - I queried DEWR as to my =
status (as a writer) under this award, and they said writers were =
covered. So if your company was a signatory to something like that, you =
may be covered.
We still had a brawl with the administrators, who at various times =
disputed that the award was active, or that we were covered by it, and =
who told us that we could go by our contracts or the award but not both =
(yes, we could go by both, this meant we could claim both notice and =
redundancy money) - and at one point informed us that they accepted that =
we were covered by the award but they still were not going to honour it.
And while you still should not have to wait in line for money from DEWR, =
they can't proceed until they have received the paperwork from the =
liquidator/administrator, and that could take six months.
Except in the case of the Mudgee Abbatoir, where employees received DEWR =
payouts within about a week of it going under, *before* the deed of =
company arrangement had even been accepted by creditors. It depends who =
your local MP is, how swiftly you receive payout, and how much that =
payout is. Not kidding.
-----Original Message-----
From: Leon and Jen Narunsky [mailto:narunsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, 5 February 2004 5:31 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Advice wanted for a newly unemployed technical writer
Thank you Janet for posting the message for me and thank you all for =
your
replies. I can make a claim from GEERS but need to know what award I am
working under.
The closest that we can find is the clerical and administrative award. =
Does
anybody know of any other award that might fit technical writing and
mathematics education (Not in a school or Tafe)
Thanks
Jenny
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janet Taylor" <jtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 11:16 AM
Subject: atw: Advice wanted for a newly unemployed technical writer
> The company in which one of our fellow Technical Writers worked has =
just
> been closed.
> She has received no termination payment, final pay, holiday pay and =
recent
> superannuation and tax weren't paid. She was a full time permanent
employee
> for the past 14 years.
>
> Does anyone have any useful advice or sources of assistance that she =
can
use
> to help get any money from the wash-up of this company?
>
> I'm sorry to say that the ASTC(NSW) isn't able to help in this =
instance.
>
> Thanks in advance.....
>
> (I shall print and hand over any replies to her.)
>
>
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