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New Phone Venture One.Tel In Drag
Unionists are seeking a string of assurances from former directors of failed telco One.Tel in an effort to protect employees at their new TeleOne operation.
The CPSU was meeting TeleOne principals, including one-time One.Tel chiefs Mark Silbermann and Kevin Beck, today. Stephen Jones, Communications Section assistant secretary, told Workers Online they would be looking for key assurances before recommending that former employees walk through the doors.
The union wants specific information on ...
· the length of TeleOne's contracts with carriers
· its corporate structure - what are its assets, who holds those assets and who will be the employing entity?
· commitments on negotiating an award and certified agreement
"We have maintained contact with a number of former One.Tel people and won't be advising them to take the risk unless we get those assurances," Jones said.
The former directors announced plans to launch their new phone company, focusing on the residential market, in April.
More than 1600 workers were left jobless when One.Tel collapsed last year with $600 million in debts. Quick action from the CPSU recovered redundancy payments and other entitlement but significant bonuses still went unpaid.
One.Tel employed staff on individual contracts in direct opposition to the collective documents being pursued by the CPSU.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is reportedly trying to have Silbermann and One.Tel boss Jodee Rich, unconnected with the new venture, barred from being managers or directors of any Australian company.
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