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Issue No. 124 | 15 February 2002 |
Chickens Come Home
Unions: Winning the Heartland Interview: Swan's Song Corporate: Lessons from Enron Politics: What We Did Last Summer History: Solidarity in Song International: A Tale of Two Cities Poetry: Nobody Told Me Review: Labor and the Rings Satire: Rafter Named Bermudan Of The Year For Tax Purposes
Unions' Commit to Battle for Hearts Carr on Notice - Expectations Up Mad Monk Sides With Angels � Briefly Maritime Union Acts on Spy Scandal May Day Play-Off for Workers' Anthem Burmese Links Shroud Winter Olympics New Phone Venture One.Tel In Drag Two Million Face Rights Downgrade Enron Collapse Hits Share-Owner Agenda Corrrigan Snaps Up Rail Bargain Kinko Clowns With Workers' Rights Telstra's Tragic Delays Of Its Own Making Burrow Puts Case to World Economic Forum Shangri La Protests Hit Melbourne
The Soapbox The Locker Room Week in Review
'International Labour's Year in Review' - A Re-View Belly's Broad-Side Collins Gets Cryptic
Labor Council of NSW |
News Two Million Face Rights Downgrade
ACTU president Sharan Burrow says a coalition of union, community, legal and youth organisation will campaign against the changes proposed by Workplace Relations Minister, Tony Abbott. "His plan to exempt small business from unfair dismissal laws would remove job security from millions of workers who could be sacked for not reason. Why should employees in large businesses have legal right, but million of others miss out?" she said. Burrow said existing laws were not a major burden on small business, with less than 0.3 percent being involved with federal unfair dismissal cases in any year. Meanwhile, small business in Abbott's Warringah electorate is fingering GST as a greater cause of concern. Fifty two respondents in a survey of 100 businesses, employing fewer than 20 people, opted for GST as the Government policy causing most concern, while not one gave "unfair dismissal" as a reason for not hiring more workers.
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