Issue No 16 | 04 June 1999 | |
NewsBraddy Bunch to Lift Contractor Veil
The Queensland IRC will be able to declare a worker is legally an "employee" regardless of their formal employment status, under a reform package being pushed by Queensland Industrial Relations Minister Paul Braddy.
Under the laws currently before the State Parliament, the Commission would have the power to look behind contractor arrangements and declare a worker to be an employee, despite their being constituted as an independent contractor. This would mean they could have entitlements which employees enjoy such as superannuation, workers compensation and leave enetitlements conferred on them by Coimmission order. The change would be a major blow against the shift towards contractor arrangements to avoid the responsibilities attached to a formal employmnet relationship. NSW Industrial Relations Miniser Jeff Shaw says he'll be watching the operation of the Queensland laws with interest. "NSW had the first go at defining a Labor model of IR into the 21st century, now its Queensland turn and we'll be more than interested spectators," he told Workers Online. Other aspects of the package include: - allowing "union encouragement" clauses in agreements increasing - abolising the state Employment Advocate and Enterprise Commissioner - increases annual sick leave entitlements from one week to eight days - introduces unpaid materntity leave for casuals.
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Interview: Opening Australia Lindsay Tanner talks about new ideas, new policy and new politics in the Information Age. Unions: An Educated Fightback A visiting US trade unionist reveals how training better union delegates is the key to reversing the membership slide. Legal: A Fair Case for Free-Rider Laws The proposal to enable unions to charge non-members a service fee for negotiating enterprise agreements is consistent with the principle of freedom of association. History: New Ideas in Labour History See the latest from the May issue of Labour History, A Journal of Labour and Social History. International: Tiananmen Square Ten Years On We remember the massacre and the role that working people continue to play in fighting injustice. Review: Organising Our Future - What Use the US?? A new paper looks at what Australian unions can learn from the experiences of their American colleagues.
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