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Interview: Australia@Work Unions: State of the Union Industrial: Fashion Accessories Legal: Leg Before Picket Politics: Business Welfare Brats Health: Cannabis Controversy Economics: Debt, Deficit, Downturn History: Politics In The Pubs Review: Three Bob's Worth Poetry: Do The Slowly Chokie
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Freedom From Choice The about-face became effective from April 4, provoking allegations of unfairness and contravention of core public service values. [full story] Hostile Takeover - Can Howard Do It? As former Attorney General Jeff Shaw prepares a legal team to argue the union case, leading academics and practitioners are forming the view that the radical extension of Commonwealth�s corporations power will be unconstitutional. [full story] Vanstone Shows Brickie�s Cleavage And foreign childcare workers, included in the Migration Occupations in Demand for the first time, will be shipped into Australia without having any formal assessment of their qualifications. [full story] Ten Cent Deal Cuts Beards Contractors, Thiess Hochtief, introduced ten-cent paper masks for underground workers exposed to deadly silica dust. [full story] Kiwis Vote for Flight A Sydney-based organisation is helping expats exercise their rights in what is shaping as a watershed poll. [full story] Costa Railroads Jobs Stunned worker representatives are gob-smacked by the Minister for the Hunter�s failure to warn them his government would slash local content requirements for 500 new carriages, from 100 percent to 20 percent. [full story]
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Abysmal take up rates for federal AWAs have pushed the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations into ditching "choice" and forcing new starters onto individual contracts.
There is growing legal opinion that the federal government�s plan to ride roughshod over state industrial relations systems will not withstand a High Court challenge.
Thousands of foreign bricklayers and carpenters will hit the Australian building industry as the boom tapers off, under changes to the skilled immigration program.
Tunnel workers on the Chatswood rail link are being told to shave their beards to save the boss money.
Unions are rallying 450,000 Australian-based Kiwis to vote in this year�s New Zealand general election.
Former Transport Minister, Michael Costa, is being fingered for the likely loss of 600 skilled Hunter Valley jobs.
