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Issue No. 182 | 13 June 2003 |
The Dead Couple
History: Nest of Traitors Interview: A Nation of Hope Unions: National Focus Safety: The Shocking Truth Tribute: A Comrade Departed History: Working Bees Education: The Big Picture International: Static Labour Economics: Budget And Fudge It Technology: Google and Campaigning Review: Secretary With A Difference Poetry: The Minimale Satire: Howard Calls for Senate to be Replaced by Clap-O-Meter
Carr Faces Acid On Job Security Abbott Prescribes Dole for Mother of Six Cole Batting Zero from Thirty Two Dust Busters � MUA Sails into Allianz Fight Security Forces Come Out Firing Women�s Centre Faces Ideological Jihad Varsity Casuals Win Wage Increase Fortress NSW Protects BHP Workers Pharmacists Seek Jobs Medicine Iranian Textile Workers Sewn Up Unique Union �Uni Partnership
Politics The Soapbox Media The Locker Room
Saharwi Struggle Vinegar Hill Tom's Toons
Labor Council of NSW |
News Carr Faces Acid On Job Security
After sitting on recommendations to regulate casuals and labour hire for more than two years, the government will now have to respond to the same claims, as an employer. As such the government will have to make the call whether to back the Labor Council claim in NSW Industrial Relations Commission to establish three core principles: - a mechanism for regulating casual work that would give casuals the opportunity to become permanent after six months - a set of procedures employers would have to go through before contracting out, including consultation and not using the process to merely evade existing wages and conditions, or de-unionise the workplace - a requirement that labour hire employees attract the wages and conditions paid by the host employer If successful the standards would flow across the entire public sector, a section of the workforce where casualisation and labour hire is growing dramatically as departments attempt to meet workloads without breaking a Treasury-enforced freeze on new jobs. The NSW IRC would be asked to look at awards covered by three unions - the Public Service Association, the National Union of Workers and the CFMEU. Under NSW industrial laws all employers covered by an award are 'roped in', meaning rogue employers can't undercut the ruling. Labor Council deputy assistant secretary, Chris Christodoulou said its public service component would be the 'acid test' of where the NSW Labor Government actually stood on workers rights. "We are looking for basic safeguards in the event of contracting or labour hire," Christodoulou said. "We don't accept these things should be a back door way of cutting wage rates or conditions, particularly where they have been hard won over years. "It is a reasonable response to growing casualisation and the increasing use of labour hire and contracting." Christodoulou said Labor Council's hand had been forced by the "laissez faire" attitude of the Government which had turned it down on any regulation of labour hire, and proposal for host employer conditions. "They say they are sympathetic but argue such matters are best dealt with by the IRC. Well, that's where we are going," Chrisotdoulou says.
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