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MEDIA RELEASE
4 February 2014
SPC ARDMONA PROVIDES THE FACTS ON WORKER
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ALLOWANCES
Recent claims that SPC Ardmona is a “union shop” or that the cause of its difficulties are because of “over
generous” allowances and conditions to staff, are mistaken and need to be refuted by the facts.
These include:
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The total cost of allowances for al
l production staff at SPC Ardmona for the entire year of 2013 was
$116,467, which represents less than 0.1% of the business’s cost of goods for the year.
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SPC Ardmona employees get 20 days annual leave, not nine weeks.
SPC Ardmona’s Managing Director Peter
Kelly said: “ Our employees are aware of the critical and urgent need
to transform our business and the majority have responded in practical and financial ways to lift productivity to
help secure our long term in future in the Goulburn Valley.
“We have b
een assessing work practices for many months, and have made significant improvements in
productivity.”
Since 2011 32% of positions across the business have been made redundant.
In December 2013, 73 employees in the maintenance and trade function at SPC
Ardmona, who had been
previously advised their positions were under review, were made redundant, and the function outsourced to an
external maintenance services provider.

yorick

If you make reference to the redundancy's, the company seems to be making decisions a little late in the year.

Should have been a little smarter and asked Labor for it!!