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Issue No. 130 | 05 April 2002 |
Lights Out on The Hill
Interview: Change Agent Industrial: Balancing the Books Unions: Breaking Out Politics: Pissing on the Light on the Hill History: Of Death and Taxes International: Now That's a Strike! Satire: Mugabe Voted Miss Zimbabwe: Denies Election Rigged Poetry: Flick Go The Branches Review: Red, Red Clydeside
Brogden's Worker Creds On The Line Melbourne Faces Budget Day Gridlock Unions Call for Middle East Peace Queensland Casuals Step Forward Worker Stood Down for Dunny Action Indigenous Jobs on Union Agenda Building Workers Honour Fallen Cop Robbo and Latham to Go Three Rounds ACT Health Workers Flex Muscles Casual Rights On Agenda As Full-Time Jobs Collapse Workers Health Centre Offers Affordable Care
The Soapbox Sport Week in Review Postcard
Chikka's Legacy Socialists in the UK Organising Globally Grape Disappointment Union Resignations : Crisis or Opportunity?
Labor Council of NSW |
News Casual Rights On Agenda As Full-Time Jobs Collapse
Commenting on research published in the 'Australian Bulletin of Labour', NSW Labor Council secretary John Robertson says the notion of a 'fulltime worker' employed for 38 hours per week is becoming a "historical throwback". The nationwide research shows part-time employment up 135,100 while the number of fulltime jobs fell by 59,700; total hours of work on average down 1.6 per cent and a 15.2 per cent increase in 'under-employment'. Robertson says the figures shows that the Howard Government's only labour market success has been in hiding the real problems in finding fulltime work. "More and more workers are being forced into precarious employment, which has repercussions for financial security and long-term employment prospects," he says. The NSW Labor Council is addressing the issue on several fronts including: - proposing a labour hire industry award to take away financial incentives for employers to shed full-time staff. - increasing the rights of casual workers, including guaranteeing them permanency after a fixed period of service. - extending full-time rights such as maternity leave to part-time and casual workers. "What we have is an absence of leadership from the federal government. It is left to the union movement to provide structural support for people who are being left behind."
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