Mark, as far as I'm concerned, the award gives minimum amounts. My contract
states one month's notice, that's what they owe me, that's what I'm claiming.



> Mark Shannon <mshannon@...> wrote:
>
> G'Day all,
>
> I just got a reply back from Sallie regarding the notice. Earlier I
> stated
> that I had only two weeks notice instead of one months denoted on my
> contract. By proving my APESMA legibility, I lose my one months
> notice back
> to two weeks, but get one months redundancy instead of two weeks.
> Therefore,
> I gain absolutely nothing. If you have the inclination, read my
> request to
> Sallie, her reply and finally my reply to her again (which I have
> just
> sent). Give her credit, she at least responds.
>
>
> Mark Shannon
>
>
> Hi Sallie,
>
> Firstly, please excuse me for misspelling your name in previous
> emails.
>
> With your comments, respectively I disagree with your points in that
> firstly, the whole purpose of proving my eligibility was for the one
> month
> notice which was standard OT practice for redundant people, yet DTT
> denied
> it as being applicable to us. It did not at any stage wipe out my
> entitlements on notice. Nor did they state this would happen.
>
> Just to outline the situation, I (amongst many others) were given one
> months
> notice (which is on my employee agreement). On being made redundant I
> was
> only given two weeks redundancy in which this length of redundancy
> went
> against the trend of ALL previously made redundant people. Then, DTT
> stated
> that if you can prove eligibility to APESMA, we'll give you one
> months
> redundancy. It never said, you would lose out on other things.
> Surely, DTT
> are playing with semantics and outside of human decency? They are
> hiding
> behind every curtain. Even the Department of Employment and Workplace
> Relations admitted that it was common OT practice to give one month's
> notice. Now, you are saying you can have one or the other? I think
> that is
> unfair Sallie and with respect totally beyond belief. I do not accept
> this.
>
> In summary, I have the right to one months and proven at DTT's
> request one
> months redundancy. Please do not forget the fact that we, as
> ex-employees of
> OT, were:
>
> 1) Unemployed for a period of extended time (in my case 2
> months...bills,
> mortgages, new born baby etc)
>
> 2) Have waited 15 months now and 17 months by the time of the first
> payment
>
> 3) The company is now up and running again and not going to pay us
> out in
> full
>
> 4) and the big bonus, whatever is worked out to be the final figure,
> we only
> get 43% of what we entitled to less the percentage of the total pool
> of
> funds divided by the total owed.
>
> Respectively, again I disagree with DTT assessment as my employee
> agreement
> gives me one months notice and as it is not stated on my employee
> agreement,
> APESMA eligibility gives me one months redundancy (as per DTT
> request).
>
> Sallie, so what happens now please?
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Mark Shannon
>
> Ph: 03 9396 1599
>
> Fax: 03 9396 1627
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Muir, Sallie (AU - Sydney) [mailto:smuire@...]
>
> Sent: Thursday, 23 October 2003 3:15 PM
>
> To: Mark Shannon
>
> Subject: RE: Entitlements
>
>
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> If you refer to our circular to employees dated 28 August 2003, we
> discussed
> the issue of notice & redundancy. We noted that your employment
> contract
> does provide for one months notice, however redundancy in addition to
> that
> one months notice was not payable. Because of this, we then gave
> employees
> the opportunity to prove their eligibility for APESMA (which you
> have), in
> which case we would then pay out the notice & redundancy in
> accordance
> with the Award. In your case the Award provides for 2 weeks notice
> & 4
> weeks redundancy. In the event that the dollar value of the Award
> entitlements was less than the one month's notice we would apply the
> one
> months notice.
>
> Hope this has clarified it for you, if not please let me know.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Sallie Muir
>
> Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
>
> (02) 9322 5621
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Mark Shannon [mailto:mshannon@...]
>
> Sent: Wednesday, 22 October 2003 1:34 PM
>
> To: Muir, Sallie (AU - Sydney)
>
> Subject: RE: Entitlements
>
> Hi Sally,
>
> I received my entitlements letter last night. The only thing that
> seems to
> be incorrect is the "Period of Notice" amount/time. I am believe it
> is for
> one month not two weeks as indicated. All else is correct. Can you
> please
> confirm or advise.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Mark Shannon
>
>
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