Short-changed auditors prepare an enforceable full payment plan for skinny ATO wage offers. Strikes are one option. Courts are another.
The Albanese government’s policy of achieving an Australian Public Service-wide pay deal that applies to all agencies at the bargaining table is facing its most serious contest yet, after the Australian Services Union advised members at the Australian Taxation Office they could be better off seeking a determination from the Fair Work Commission rather than slugging it out on picket lines.
As the Commonwealth’s highly anticipated initial pay offer dropped on Tuesday afternoon, the ASU’s Taxation Officers’ Branch told members in the morning to buckle in for a “low ball” pay offer that “will be somewhere between 8% and 12%, and most likely to be between 8% and 10%.”