The financial services union has compelled Australia’s largest bank to face the workplace umpire after trying to change its work-from-home arrangements.
The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) must front up to a Fair Work Commission hearing after the Finance Sector Union (FSU) filed its dispute on July 12.
Management had notified their 49,000 employees that they needed to “return to office” by July 17 for at least 50 percent of their working time.
The FSU has spent a month trying to overturn the decision saying there was a “lack of consultation.”
“We have asked the Fair Work Commission to intervene in this matter,” said FSU National Secretary Julia Angrisano in a statement. “Instead of issuing edicts, we want the bank to engage in a consultation process with the FSU and affected staff in accordance with the CBA Enterprise Agreement.”…