Congratulations to The Australian‘s Brad Norington, who hit the nail on the head with his article, Leader finally hits a winner: By announcing yesterday that he would scrap Australian Workplace Agreements — John Howard’s form of individual employment contracts — Beazley is standing for something unequivocal. But elsewhere in the paper, The Australian peddles its [...]
Excellent news: To cheers and applause from delegates at the NSW Labor state conference, Mr Beazley said AWAs – individual contracts between employers and employees – slashed wages and ripped away rights from working mums and dads. He pledged to abolish AWAs and outlaw statutory individual contracts, calling them the poison tip of Prime Minister [...]
A troubling report in The Age suggests that certain government agencies can not be prosecuted for systemic occupational health and safety breaches that kill workers. Set Van Nguyen, a 44-year-old microbiologist, was killed when he was “trapped in a chamber full of leaking nitrogen” at a CSIRO laboratory. The coroner investigating the death heard this [...]
As part of its Clean Start campaign, the LHMU has launched a Golden Toilet Brush Award for cleaning companies that cut corners and mistreat staff: We want to hear from cleaners and office workers about examples of poor health and environmental standards created by property owners who cut corners when it comes to cleaning their [...]
The Government has been on the run this week over Spotlight’s 2-cent compensation for the loss of overtime, weekend and public holiday loadings. John Howard has been forced to change tack, and openly supported Spotlight’s AWAs in Parliament: As a result of our policy, 38 people in Mount Druitt have been given the chance of [...]
Last week the headmaster at Newington College told his 40 senior staff that they would have to reapply for their own jobs — according to staff, on AWAs instead of the existing collective agreement. In some cases, teachers would be paid less despite working an extra four weeks a year. The teachers — including junior [...]
