SPC Ardmona Dispute Report

This report investigates the SPC Ardmona dispute of 2014, focusing on the reasons behind the Australian government's refusal of a $25 million bailout package. The report examines the role of employment conditions and wages, highlighting discrepancies between the company's enterprise bargaining agreement and the National Employment Standards (NES). It also analyzes environmental factors, such as the high Australian dollar and dumping, which negatively impacted the company's competitiveness. The conclusion emphasizes the need for aligning industrial relations practices with the NES minimum entitlements. The report includes references to relevant literature on Australian workplace law and industrial relations.

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Abstract
This report investigates the reasons behind SPC Ardmona Dispute and will provide the
background information of SPC Ardmona disputes. This will also tell about the
environmental factors that were the reasons for Dispute

Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
SPC Ardmona dispute......................................................................................................................2
Environmental Factors.....................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................4

Introduction
What is Workplace dispute or Industrial Dispute? Any dispute which a reason for disagreement
is over an issue or group of issues between any employees and employers that results in the
ceasing of work. Most of the industrial disputes consist of the strike, in which employees
withdrew from their work.
Disputes that are organized or directed by trade unions and same organizations which directly
affects several locations is known as a single dispute, else the dispute will be considered as a
separate dispute. (Regan, 2015)
SPC Ardmona dispute
In 2014, Federal Government refused to give $25M bailout package which became a huge
controversy and fascination situation for the general public of Australia. The main reasons were
employment conditions and the wages. The main thing was that about the conditions of
employment and wages, this matter was inspired by the situation that the venture was very
generous and there was another idea to respect the company's recession and improper import
competition.
Company has an enterprise bargaining agreement with its workforce signed in the industrial
system in March 2013, this award was different in the National Employment Standards (NES)
for some areas, they are the minimum entitlements which are an average employee have, the
reason is that "Mr. Abot and others Senior ministers were serious about the conditions of
generous over-award in the SPC Ardmona Enterprise Bargaining Agreement. In this, union
organizers are allowed access to site representatives during the payment period, payment for the

untoward sick leave for up to 20 days at the end of employment, and the site union
representatives were given 40 days paid leave to participate in union workplace training
programs
What I can say in this case is that industrial relations were really important in the form of wet
allowances as per the entitlements and special needs. According to the agreement if the
employee is working at any place where he is getting wet or his clothes are getting wet that that
employee is entitled to get the pay of 58cents per hours, this sets a fantastic example of
negotiation skills and clearly, it is a big part of industrial relations.
After these considerations, the labor cost is not a tiny part of the industrial relations situation, in
this regard that special agreements were undertaken by the unions operating in the organization,
It will be better to arrange the employment entitlement follow NES, in any case, if there is a need
to make any special arrangements, as far as the minimum entitlement is not good, To not create
concerns comparable for example “For Melbourne cup, offering 5 days Holiday”
In the context of this decision that the government contradicted the $ 25 million bailout package,
Coca-Cola was built on the basis of partnership with Amatil, the government argued that there is
no plan to borrow money and handling it a profit corporation of $ 9 billion as CCA
Environmental Factors
The high Australian dollar has forced Victorian Fruit Canary to stop, which will no longer be
able to compete in the export markets. The company was a victim of dumping, but the Australian

government straight-away refused to implement anti-dumping duties. Being the best in quality
standard, still, company's tomatoes were rejected from the imports that that were not meeting the
standards and hence cutting the revenue.
Conclusion
In the end, there is a need to make changes in the industrial relations in SPC Ardmona to bring
closer to the minimum entitlement stated in the National Employment Standards (NES).
References
Bray, 2017. The fair work commission's' new approach'. Precedent. Sydney, NSW, Volume 141,
p. 27.
Creighton, 2012. Rediscovering Collective Bargaining: Australia's Fair Work Act in
International Perspective. s.l. Routledge.
Layton, n.d. Equal remuneration under the Fair Work Act 2009.
Regan, 2015. Workplace law: Review of the fair work act: What will change?. Proctor, The,
34(4), p. 38.
Walpole, 2015. The Fair Work Act: Encouraging collective agreement-making but leaving
collective bargaining to choice. Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic
relations of work, 25(3), pp. 205-218.