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Issue No. 131 | 12 April 2002 |
Cry Freedom
Interview: Cross Wires International: Two Tribes Activists: Beneath the Veil Unions: Terror Australis History: A Labor Footnote To The Royal Funeral Economics: Private Affluence, Public Rip-Off Review: The Great Hall of the People Poetry: Waiting for the Living Wage Satire: Israel Recruits NAB To Close West Bank
Baby Company Punts Netball Mum Dairy Workers Win Global Breakthrough Treasury Modelling Backs ACTU Claim Come Clean � Insurance Giants Challenged Job Security Win For Cabin Crew Workers Gear-up For Pollution Fight Shuffling The Deck On The Yarra Doubts Over Ettalong Wharf Funding
The Soapbox The Locker Room Week in Review
A Voice for the Shareholders Noses in the Trough Bugger Off Memo: Carmen Lawrence Police: Make the Boss a Woman Baby Faced Brogden Workers Online - Aoteroa
Labor Council of NSW |
News Baby Company Punts Netball Mum
Janette Wynbergen will argue that she was wrongfully dismissed by BabyCo, who sacked her after changing rosters and forcing her to work every weekend. The change in rosters came despite an earlier agreement that Mrs Wynbergen have Saturdays off to care for her children. She also offered a compromise where she would work every other Saturday. She was later dismissed on the grounds that she was unable to meet her roster, even though managers were required to work only every second weekend. The case will be heard on Tuesday, April 16, in the NSW Industrial Relations Commission before Deputy President Peter Sams. Important Test of Carers' Rights. The Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Union, taking the action on behalf of the woman, regards the case as a litmus test of recent policy and legislative changes recognising carers' responsibilities. SDA NSW secretary Greg Donnelly says if it wasn't so serious it would be a joke. "BabyCo sacking a female employee who is trying to meet her responsibilities as a mother." He says new carers laws set down responsibilities for employers to take into account the family obligations workers may face. "It's 2002 and we are meant to be living in an age of enlightened employers who pride themselves on being family friendly," Donnelly says. "Not at BabyCo though. At BabyCo the master servant relationship is alive and well." The Labor Council of NSW will intervene in the case in support of the SDA.
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