Posted on 07/22/2025 8:20:42 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Australia's largest company has been taken to court for allegedly breaching a contract by outsourcing hundreds of local jobs to India.
The Finance Sector Union said it has commenced action in the Fair Work Commission against Commonwealth Bank of Australia for allegedly breaching the CBA Enterprise Agreement.
CBA has been accused of defying Clause 36 of the agreement which defines redundancy.
Redundancy can occur, according to the clause, if the work is no longer required, the work is required to be done at a different location that is not within reasonable commuting distance or if the work is restructured so that the tasks are split up to other positions.
The FSU said the bank informed the union on June 10 that 304 redundancies across technology and retail banking jobs were taking place, while it was recruiting for about 100 jobs for CBA India.
About 110 of the jobs impacted by the redundancies had a job ad based in India with the same job title, the FSU said.
These include positions such as senior software engineers, staff data engineer, staff software engineer, engineering manager, software engineer and senior data engineer.
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Offshore jobs? The information we choose to see and the information we choose not to see is so chaotic that all these anecdotal events make no sense.
Voter systems in IT is the best example. HAVA was created by Sen Chris Dodd based on the Gore recount. HAVA (Part of FEC) is a money trough for FOD..Friends of Dodd. Freinds of Dodd subcontracted offshore to develop our election systems by those who know nothing of election law in GA or any state and know nothing of US culture and tradition.
This was mentioned anecdotally in 2014-2019 on FR.
But when all the 2020 vote hassles made front page, nobody wanted to discuss the origin...the cause which is HAVA in 2001.
This is only an example. There are others including 2025 and projectec 2026 big bucks not well spent.
It must portent problems when a bank is the largest company in a country.
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