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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 Abbott Prescribes Dole for Mother of Six
Cunningham says that Abbott�s Termination of Employment Bill, which seeks to bring unjustified dismissal under restrictive federal provisions, would have cost her her job at Lipa Management Services. Instead, when she was unfairly sacked, her union, the NUW, won reinstatement by taking a dispute through the NSW IRC. "I don't understand the law very much and I don't understand this Government either," Cunningham told Labor Council delegates. "I am the bread winner in my family and if I don't work we don't eat. If families like mine don't have some recourse when we are unfairly sacked we would be left on the dole. "If this law gets passed life will be a lot harder for people like us. Where I work people work six or 12 months as casuals and nobody is told that they don't have permanent rights." Cunningham had worked at Lipa for four and a half months when she was dismissed, after joining the NUW. The first three months, however, were spent on the books of a labor hire company. Abbott's Bill would deny unfair dismissal procedures to employees with less than three months service, amongst others. NUW spokesman Andrew Joseph said the Federal system was costly, complex and difficult to access by comparison with a state regime that was less legalistic. Academics have described Government's move as a key step in eliminating state jurisdictions and establishing a unitary, federal system of workplace laws. Key Democrat senators, including IR spokesman Andrew Bartlett, have indicated they will support Abbott's move. ACTU president, Sharan Burrow, will join Queensland and NSW Labor Council secretaries, Grace Grace and John Robertson, in a face-to-face meeting with Bartlett next week.
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