Fairfax tells journalists it wants to cut out of hours pay and drop automatic salary rises

Fairfax Media has told its journalists that in wants to give no automatic pay rises and wants to reduce the amount it pays those who work after 6pm.

The publisher has also said that new employees should get less generous redundancy terms of three weeks pay per year of service, capped at 52 weeks. This would replace the current terms of four weeks per year of service plus two weeks notice.

The message to the company’s journalists was sent out by Fairfax publishing boss Allen Williams on the two year anniversary of the announcement of the most dramatic cuts in the company’s history.

In June 2012  the company stunned its staff with the announcement of the axing of 1,900 jobs, and the closure of two of its major presses at Chullora and Tullamarine. Fairfax’s press in Chullora in NSW closed a few days ago and now stands empty.

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