AFAP NOTIFIES DTA DISPUTE
You have received this correspondence from the AFAP as a member listed on the AFAP Data Base showing you employed with PHI International, which includes PHI ESSO. As an "ESSO" member its contents may not be as relevant to you as it is to your PHI colleagues under the Broome/Truscott, Pilbara, Gascoyne and Northern Territory Enterprise Agreements. However, it may be of interest.
It relates to the company ceasing payment of Daily Travel Allowance (DTA) to members.
We hope the correspondence is self-explanatory for members everywhere. In essence the AFAP has notified a dispute in relation to the
company's decision to cease paying DTA to instead pay LAFHA. We also reference a previous decision of the FWC that deals with that very question. That decision confirms that the obligation under the Enterprise Agreement prevails. The Enterprise Agreement each say to pay DTA and not LAFHA.
If members have any queries on this dispute please direct them to David Stephens, AFAP Senior Industrial Officer (
david@afap.org.au).
Finally, the AFAP learnt today that the company has issued the proposed revised Broome/Truscott Agreement for consideration as part of the voting process, apparently on Tuesday. We have also learnt that a number of pilots/members did not receive any documentation of the proposed Agreement, including the proposed Agreement itself.
If you are a Broome/Truscott based pilot, even on secondment to another region (eg Pilbara, Gascoyne, or Northern Territory), and you did not receive a copy of the material, or the proposed agreement, apparently sent last Tuesday would you please advise the AFAP (again at david@afap.org.au).
In closing, again for those Broome/Truscott EA members, the AFAP will be issuing a formal update on its views of the proposed new Broome/Truscott agreement, of which
we do not support for the reasons that we will articulate for members prior to the "consideration period" apparently due to finish next Tuesday.
AFAP INDUSTRIAL TEAM