Four more workers have been made redundant from the MaxiTRANS site in Wendouree, union officials confirmed on Tuesday.
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It takes the number of casual and permanent staff that have been lost at the factory, which makes makes truck and trailer parts, to at least 70.
As well as 16 shop-floor workers, four white-collar workers are also thought to have been made redundant.
Around 50 casual staff have also lost their jobs at the site over the past two months.
A spokesperson for the Australian Manufacturers and Workers Union (AMWU) said the additional redundancies were not taken voluntarily.
The union hopes that this process is now complete and that MaxiTRANS can move into the new year providing a secure long term workplace for our members and the residents of the Ballarat area
- AMWU spokesperson
A statement put out by AMWU organiser Matt Christie read:
"The AMWU is aware of additional redundancies that took place at MaxiTrans last Friday (15/11).
"In our discussions with the Company there was to be a total of 12 redundancies for staff covered by the AMWU Agreement. We now understand that there were 16 positions made redundant on top of the admin and casual staff.
"While we believe that the majority of these positions were voluntary redundancies, it is unfortunate that the Company later chose to make some of these positions forced redundancies.
"The union hopes that this process is now complete and that MaxiTRANS can move into the new year providing a secure long term workplace for our members and the residents of the Ballarat area."
The company's managing director Dean Jenkins told The Courier that of the 16 shop-floor redundancies, 10 were voluntary and six were not.
The first wave of redundancies, as well as a staff reshuffle, were announced at short notice earlier this month.
The company, which has traditionally depended substantially on casual employment, no longer has anyone working on that basis at its Ballarat site.
Staffing levels at the Ballarat site are now at their lowest levels for "a substantive period", Mr Jenkins said last week.
He cited a depressed market for the downturn in business. The company's most recent annual report shows that the company's revenue went down by 19 per cent in the past financial year to $223.9m. That followed a year significantly boosted by a Coles Supermarket trailer order.
One victim of the staff cuts who talked to The Courier criticised Mr Jenkins for a high level of executive pay, as well as other alleged production mistakes.
Mr Jenkins defended his salary, saying it had not increased since he took the job in 2017.
In the annual report, Mr Jenkins' base salary is reported as $690,594 for both years.
With superannuation and other remuneration, Mr Jenkins earned a total of $902,610 in the 2017/18 financial year, which went down to $796,816 in 2018/19.
The annual report also said the company is seeking to "mitigate the single point of reliance on the Ballarat manufacturing facility" with a new Queensland manufacturing facility "currently under development".
This would it said reduce the long-term strain on Ballarat and allow MaxiTRANS "to better support the growing Northern NSW and Queensland markets".
Mr Jenkins told The Courier production errors were possible given the scale of the manufacturing.
"We do the right thing by our customers and our warranty support has got better not worse," he said.
He reiterated that the wider background to the redundancies in Ballarat was a declining market, which he said was affecting businesses across the board.
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