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Interview: Picking Up The Peaces Unions: The Royal Con National Focus: Around the Grounds Economics: The Secret War on Trade International: United Front History: Confessions of a Badge Collector Politics: Stalin�s Legacy Review: Such Was Not Ned�s Life Poetry: Osama's Top Recruiter Satire: Woolworths CEO Denied Bonus After Company Posts Profit
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Medicare Bombshell � Bosses To Pay ACTU president Sharan Burrow said Australian unions were �loathe� to write health costs into employment contracts but would be under pressure to do so if the Prime Minister restricted free bulk billing under Medicare. [full story] Another Cole Man Bites The Dust A Court has found that Troy Stratti, Sam Stratti and their company Stratti Ocean Earthworks failed to deliver on promises made to a husband and wife operation, Lefty�s Excavator & Drott Hire, then reneged on payments for work completed. [full story] Cheap Indian on Telstra Menu Confirmation came, courtesy of the Herald Sun which spoke to a Melbourne-based Indian IT worker, as Australia�s largest company denied it was paying �sweatshop wages� to foreign workers. [full story] Legal Tussle Looms Over Email Laws As the Commonwealth moves to take control of the area, the Labor Council has sent Debus legal advice from former Attorney-General and new Supreme Court justice Jeff Shaw that NSW should regulate at a state level. [full story] Recycled Training Stitch-Up Exposed The example was one of several abuses of Commonwealth traineeships outlined before a Senate Committee last week. [full story] Contractors Code Fires a Blank Department of Public Works officials have refused to disclose to unions where textiles used in NSW hospitals are being sourced from, in breach of the Department�s procurement code. [full story]
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Employers have been put on notice that labour costs will skyrocket if John Howard takes Australia further down the private health track.
Key Cole Commission witness Troy Stratti ripped off business partners and failed to honour agreements, according to a properly-constituted judicial authority.
Australia�s biggest company, Telstra, is paying guest IT workers less than 20 percent what it pays Australians to do the same job.
Unions have appealed to NSW Attorney-General Bob Debus not to throw in the towel on email surveillance laws, with Canberra moving to cover the field with pro-employer rules.
A clothing company has stitched up nearly half a million taxpayer dollars for signing existing staff over to traineeships in skills they already possessed.
The bizarre prison labour outsourcing saga has landed on the desk of new NSW Commerce Minister John Della Bosca, after bureaucrats refused to honour the Carr Government�s much-vaunted contractors code.
