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Interview: Polar Eclipse Industrial: Wrong Turn Unions: Star Support Workplace: Checked Out Economics: Sold Out Politics: Green Banned History: Potted History International: Curtain Call Review: Little Fish Poetry: Slug A Worker
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Telstra Cuts Off Sick Mum The single mum's contract leaves sick pay in the hands of management, which refused point blank although she was taken off its premises in an ambulance. [full story] CFMEU Pulls $3M Bank Job Financier Macquarrie Bank coughed up the money after a two-week picket of an apartment development, following the collapse of builder, JLB. [full story] Life Imitates Ad Trainee bus driver Tracey Carpenter was sacked after State Transit refused to alter her rosters so she could look after her kids, aged two and four. [full story] Equal Pay Unlawful Amendments to the �Better Bargaining Bill�, passed through Parliament last week, ban employees, at different sites, from asking for similar wages or conditions, even when they are doing the same work. [full story] AWA Threatens Kids Melanie Reardon was also denied time off after her brother died, and says she was told, �everybody had to die sometime�, when she wanted to take her mother, who has cancer, for chemotherapy treatment. [full story] Howard�s Porky Exposed The Australian Research Council-funded projected found that stripping Australians at workplaces of less than 100 people of unfair dismissal rights could create 6000 jobs, against the 77,000 claimed by the Prime Minister. [full story]
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A fulltime Telstra worker who collapsed on the job was denied sick pay because her AWA stripped her of the entitlement.
The CFMEU has stared down another round of anti-building worker legislation to win more than $3 million for employees and small businesses stranded by a Marrickville developer.
The ACTU ad rubbished by John Howard has come true in real life for a Sydney mother of two.
Federal Government's latest assault on collective bargaining has opened with a Bill that will make it unlawful for Australians to agitate for equal pay.
Harvey Norman, Liverpool, has sacked a Sydney Mum who queried an AWA that denied her the one weekend in three she spent with her children.
John Howard exaggerated the potential economic benefit of his decision to legitimise unfair dismissals by nearly 1300 percent, according to defence force academics.
