Issue No 24 | 30 July 1999 | |
NewsSixty Cents A Week to Protect Entitlements
Workers entitlements could be protected for as little as 60 cents per week, according to an independent analysis commissioned by NSW Department of Industrial Relations.
A preliminary feasibility study by consultants Benfield Greig reckons that Australia could establish a national insurance scheme covering all entitlements for a minimal cost to employers. The report, presented to a meeting of state and federal Labor industrial relations ministers in Sydney in this week, as between 0.47 per cent and 1.2 per cent of annual national wages. This would insure all Australia's workers entitlements including annual leave, long service leave, pay in lieu of notice, unpaid wages and redundancy payments in the event of an insolvency. The consultants recommend any such scheme should be compulsory. The ministers and shadows issued a joint statement calling on the Howard Government to move on the issue immediately. "The impost of a national wage scheme on business is minor, however the impact of insolvency on workers is disastrous," they said. The Minister also called on the Howard Government to bring on for debate two Private Member Bills protecting workers entitlements that are currently lying dormant. One of these would make it illegal to set up artificial structures to avoid paying entitlements and allow workers to recoup funds from related companies. The other involves a national insurance scheme.
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