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Icarus Rising
Right now John Howard is flying. Watch him soar in his Vodafone track-suit, further than the Hawke into unchartered skies.
Interview: Australia@Work
Labor's Penny Wong has the job of getting more people into the workplace and keeping companies honest. In her spare time ....
Unions: State of the Union
Unions NSW secretary John Robertson unveils the annual survey of attitudes of workers to their jobs, thier lives and the union.
Industrial: Fashion Accessories
Jim Marr unpacks the unlikely claim of a suburban house to be considered the New Mecca of the New Right �
Legal: Leg Before Picket
Chris White looks at how the federal industrial changes will impact on the basic right to strike.
Politics: Business Welfare Brats
Neale Towart asks why the only form of legitmate welfare seems to be going to the top end of town.
Health: Cannabis Controversy
Zoe Reynolds looks at how drug and alcohol testing is leading to some addled outcomes.
Economics: Debt, Deficit, Downturn
As the indicators head south, Frank Stilwell wonders whether it is the way we do economics that is to blame.
History: Politics In The Pubs
Phil Doyle reports on the increasingly-popular Struggles, Scabs and Schooners day out.
Review: Three Bob's Worth
Doing their best Margaret and David, Tara de Boehmler and Tim Brunero have different takes on the new Australian flick Three Dollars.
Poetry: Do The Slowly Chokie
Workers Online bard David Peetz teaches how workers to dance to Howard's industrial laws.
 Health System to Subsidise Shonks
Who Likes Bing Lee?
Death Threats Shut Campsie
Thumbs Down for Union Busters
Advocate Pours Salt on Wound
United Front Beats Drug Boss
Kev Backs Double Standard
Victorian Morality Shafts Teacher
Doctors Prescribe More
Multinational Banks Jobs
Working Class Idol
Greens Protect Entitlements
Activist�s What�s On
The Soapbox
Notes From a Laneway
Mental Health Workers Alliance member Toby Raeburn shares a week on the frontline. The Locker Room
War, Plus The Shooting
The Socceroos aren�t their own worst enemy after all, or so says Phil Doyle Culture
Life Imitates Art
The jokes have been around for some time about the economic rationalist's approach to the orchestra, writes Evan Jones. Parliament
The Westie Wing
Ian West takes the secret passage out of Macquarie Street to deliver his take on NSW Parliamentary Committees and other goings on.
Students Bear Brunt
Security Lacking
Bus Lanes On Vic Rd
Dirt Cheap Right On Money
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Greens Protect Entitlements
NSW Greens MP Lee Rhiannon will introduce legislation to guarantee workers entitlements when companies go belly up.
Rhiannon believes the major parties are out of step with community opinion that wants workers entitlements protected.
"When a business goes bust and workers are left with no entitlements major party MP's will say how terrible it is but they continually fail to provide legal protection," says Rhiannon.
Workers who lose their jobs when a company goes bankrupt are often last in line to get entitlements after other creditors such as banks. Long serving staff can be left tens of thousands of dollars short of legal entitlements.
Often workers have to make do with the Federal government's GEERS scheme which only offers minimal entitlements, such as eight weeks redundancy.
The Greens plan will either ensuring workers are put ahead of other creditors or make companies put workers entitlements in trusts.
Rhiannon will introduce legislation later this year after consultation with unions and employer groups.
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