Alliance scores PRIME deal

Date: 15 June 2001

The Alliance has won the following concessions from Prime Television regarding the redundancy process following the closure of the Wollongong, Newcastle and Canberra news rooms:

• Voluntary redundancy. If a person from one of the affected newsrooms is willing to work in another Prime news bureau, then voluntary redundancy will be offered to the people in that position in that newsroom. For example, if a camera person in Newcastle is willing to work in Tamworth, then voluntary redundancy will be offered to camera people in the Tamworth newsroom. If a camera person in Tamworth agrees to redundancy, the Newcastle person gets that job.
• Termination date extended to July 27. This extra three weeks will be available to people who require it to continue looking for alternative employment, both within the Prime Network and elsewhere.
• If you want to leave now, you can. Affected staff who choose to leave sooner rather than later will be paid up to 8 July, plus receive all their other entitlements.
• Prime to offer alternative jobs in areas other than newsrooms. If there's another job available in the station that an affected person is prepared to do, Prime will offer that job and provide training in the new skills.
• Prime to contact competitors to help find jobs for those made redundant. Shirley Brown stated this has already occurred and will continue.

For further information

Contact:	Richard Harris
Union:	MEAA
Phone:	02 9333 0957
Email:	rharris@meaa.aust.com
WWW:	http://www.alliance.org.au

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