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Interview: Fortress NSW Unions: Fashions Afield Industrial: Pay Dirt Politics: Infrastructure Blues History: Big Day Out International: Making History Economics: The Fear Factor Review: The Robots Revolt Poetry: The Corporation's Power
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Harmer FACS Families Management at the Family and Community Services Department (FaCS) wants staff to cop cuts in personal, bereavement, carers and paternity leave while they push the official line about "recognising the importance of families and their valuable contribution to society". [full story] Brats Drive Bus Row The issue has blown up with the South American-born driver being suspended, and outraged parents claiming their mobile phone-toting offspring were "kidnapped". [full story] Harsh Reality � Bella Turns Pink My Restaurant Rules competitor and Pink Salt manager Bella Serventi was this week forced to repay workers more than $8,000 they were underpaid while on AWAs, championed by the federal government. [full story] Rev Kev Blesses Bosses Andrews has said new industrial laws he is drafting, including substantial fines for rank and file workers, will be applied retrospectively � but he won�t be directing them at Adelaide employers who took time off work to listen to him. [full story] Workers Online Legit The Workplace Surveillance Bill 2005 requires employers to notify workers if there is a policy of monitoring email and internet use and makes any form of covert surveillance a criminal offence unless a magistrate can be convinced there is a reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing. [full story] Howard Rides Kiwi Model Government MP, Nanaia Mahuta, said nine years of life under the Employment Contracts Act, the blueprint for Howard�s agenda, left her country demoralised. [full story]
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The federal agency staging National Families Week is trying to rip family-friendly conditions away from thousands of its own employees.
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A restaurateur embroiled in a high profile bid to foist individual contracts onto workers says a union campaign cost her reality TV votes.
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