FWC – Arbitration Decision Yet to be Handed Down
With the turn of the new year we had of course hoped that there would be news regarding the impending decision to be handed down by the full bench of the FWC.
As with all legal proceedings guessing when a decision might be handed down is always literally that, a guess. The AFAP legal team believed that the earliest they’d have expected a result was ‘some time in February’, but the caveat was that didn’t account for any of the three bench members potentially taking some additional leave over Christmas.
Interestingly since the new legislation was enacted there have only been 9 Intractable Bargaining Declarations (including ours) and of those only two have been determined. As a new piece of legislation the FWC are clearly treading warily. Coupled with that of course is that not only were there nearly 2000 pages of submission from the AFAP, the FWC also has to review the substantial amount of witness evidence.
The legal advice we’ve received is to just wait for the result, as much as it maybe frustrating, we clearly don’t want to interfere with all the hard work that was put in by our legal team and all those pilots willing to submit witness evidence.
We can only hope that a decision is made by the time the next council meeting occurs on 10th March so the Council can fully review the contents of the decision.
As always your Council reps are:
Stephen Maughan:
smaughan@iinet.net.au
Ben Walmsley:
ben.walms@gmail.com
Joshua Sheldon:
josh.b.sheldon@gmail.com
Sasha Leavy:
sasha_leavy@hotmail.com
Matt Atkinson:
matkinson209@gmail.com
Eman Zimmerman:
mano01@hotmail.com
Mark Levitt:
Networkpilotcouncilstuff.ml@outlook.com
Geoffrey Aro:
flyingaro@gmail.com
In addition, the AFAP Senior Industrial Officer Chris Aikens is contactable on
chris@afap.org.au. The AFAP Member Assistance Program (MAP) can be contacted via Freecall 1300 307 912.