Vic: Court clerks industrial dispute averted
MELBOURNE, Feb 13 AAP - A 24-hour walkout by Victorian court clerks has been called off.
The stopwork would have shut down all of the state's magistrates courts tomorrow.
But talks between the Department of Justice and the public service union today avertedthe industrial action.
The parties were in dispute over the clerks' career structure.
Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) state secretary Karen Batt said about 150clerks of the courts were poised to walk off the job tomorrow morning and march to VictorianTrades Hall for a stopwork meeting.
Clerks of the courts assist in the operation of magistrates courts, as well as Victoria'sdrug courts, PERIN court and children's court.
The Supreme Court, coroners court and after hours court would not have been affectedby the walkout.
The clerks dispute is linked to the wider public service talks between the Victoriangovernment and the CPSU on a new career structure.
Conciliation talks are underway in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC),with both parties able to trigger arbitration at any time.
"We are a long way apart on some fundamental issues," Ms Batt told AAP.
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