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Workers in limbo

Fri 12 Dec 08

Stress and uncertainty continues for 16,000 ABC Learning workers as they wait to find out if they’ll get the $31m entitlements owed to them.

Stress and uncertainty continues for 16,000 ABC Learning workers as they wait to find out if they’ll get the $31m entitlements owed to them. The situation is especially grim for 500 workers from the 55 centres which the Receivers will close on 31 December. 

These workers been told there will be job losses but they still don’t know on whose heads the axe will fall and, shockingly, they still don’t know if the will receive their hard-earned entitlements –holiday pay, long service leave or redundancy. 

Click here to watch Louise Tarrant, LHMU National Secretary, on Channel 7’s Sunrise report on the human cost of the collapse of Australia’s largest childcare provider.

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