Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced her Government will be making a joint submission with the ASU to Fair Work Australia in the ASU’s Equal Pay case for SACS workers. The joint submission will support the Queensland rates (those rates that were awarded in the Queensland Equal Pay case in 2009) as the new SACS wage rates and commit the Commonwealth to fully fund their share of the additional cost.

Attached is a bulletin that further explains the details of the announcement and where the ASU case will go from here. This is a truly historic moment in the case and the industry’s 30 year long fight for Equal Pay.  sacs_news.pdf