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The SDA is committed to improving the wages and working conditions of workers at Subway restaurants.

Currently, Zombie Agreements are one of the biggest contributing factors to some Subway workers being paid less than the minimum entitlements in the Fast Food Industry Award.

Under some of these Agreements workers could be losing more than $100 per four hour shift.

There are over 353 different Subway Agreements in operation around Australia, with most Agreements operating past their nominal expiry date.

We need your help to terminate these Zombie Agreements.

FAQ

A recently terminated Subway Zombie Agreement did not afford workers weekend or public holiday penalty rates.

Whilst the Agreement did pay the minimum amount for hours of work between 6am to 10pm, there was a substantial gap between what a worker would have been paid for penalty rate shifts under their Award compared to the Zombie Agreement.

The example below shows the discrepancy between a level 1 permanent part-time worker’s pay under the Zombie Agreement and what it would be under the FFIA rates:

4 hour Saturday shift:

Zombie Agreement: $89.32 (4 x 22.33)

Fast Food Industry Award: $111.64 (4 x $27.91)

Zombie Agreement worker is losing $22.32 per Saturday shift.

4 hour Sunday shift:

Zombie Agreement: $89.32 (4 x 22.33)

Fast Food Industry Award: $111.64 (4 x $27.91)

Zombie Agreement worker is losing $22.32 per Sunday shift.

4 hour public holiday shift:

Zombie Agreement: $89.32 (4 x 22.33)

Fast Food Industry Award: $200.96 (4 x $50.24)

Zombie Agreement worker is losing $111.64 per public holiday shift .

A Zombie agreement can only be terminated by an application to the Fair Work Commission by one of three people:

  1. An employer covered by the agreement (your boss)
  2. An employee covered by the agreement (a current worker)
  3. A union covered by the agreement

As the SDA was not involved in the process of creating these agreements, we cannot apply to terminate them on our own as we are not covered by the agreement.

The substantial savings that a business makes in wages under these agreements means that your Boss is unlikely to make an application to terminate them.

So that just leaves the worker.

I want to make an application to terminate a Zombie Agreement

The SDA will provide support to any subway worker who wishes to apply to terminate a Zombie Agreement in their workplace.

By getting in touch with us, you can provide us with the information required to start an application with the Fair Work Commission to remove these Agreements that are paying you less than the award.

It will help you to fill out the form if you have access to a copy of your most recent pay slip.

By getting touch with us not only will you be improving your own pay at work, but you will be improving the pay of all employees in your workplace.

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