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Specialty Fashion Group Enterprise Agreement

On March 20, 2017, the SDA filed a request to terminate Specialty Fashion Group`s 2011 corporate agreement, which expired in 2014. The agreement was officially terminated on March 4, 2019. In an email to the Commission and SFG, Ms Dimopoulos said few employees were known among the allocation rates of the agreement. Despite the fact that 81 percent of workers who voted in favor of the deal were in favor of the deal, the union refused to sign it, which could prevent Fair Work from approving the proposed deal. Fashion chain Noni B will be forced to significantly increase the salaries of thousands of employees after the scrapping of its long-expired company contract. The Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association negotiated the old contract with SFG in 2011. The vote on the new company agreement dominoes. Between June 30, 2017 and August 11, 2017, shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) filed 27 separate contract termination requests with the FWC to terminate 30 expired registered contracts. This happened because the retailer operated under a company deal that expired five years ago, known as the „zombie deal.“ If the Fair Work Commission does not terminate or renew expired contracts, they remain legal.

The injunction to terminate the old deal comes a week after the Commission denounced a similar outdated deal that allowed The Merivale pub and restaurant empire to pay their employees well below award salaries. This modern variant of premiums does not apply to employers and workers covered by a registered company agreement. „I encourage all of you to vote yes for better pay, better holidays and a fairer deal for all.“ The agreement allowed the retailer to gain a considerable advantage over its competitors. „The SDA does not support the agreement and will involve members regarding the pros and cons of the proposed agreement.“ „It is believed that thousands of workers, especially in the hospitality and retail sector, are still being paid under these dubious outdated company agreements,“ he said. SDA national secretary Gerard Dwyer, however, said in a legal statement to the Commission that the price had since exceeded the deal. A spokesman for Noni B, which also operates the Rockmans, W Lane, Beme and Table Eight channels, told IR that it was „extremely regrettable that the SDA decided to conduct its campaign through the media against the Noni B Group`s corporate agreement, approved by 81 percent of the group`s affected employees.“ The complaints follow the SDA`s refusal earlier this month to approve a proposed company negotiation agreement it had negotiated with Noni B, after the Fair Work Commission ordered the fashion chain to cancel its previous agreement by March 4. . . .

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