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Issue No. 284 | 07 October 2005 |
Age of Consent
Interview: Under Fire Politics: And the Winners Are ... Industrial: Un-Australian Economics: The Common Wealth History: Walking for Justice International: Deja Vu Legal: The Rights Stuff Review: That Cinderella Fella Poetry: Is Howard Kidding?
Will They Know It's Christmas? Archbishop Preaches End Of Civilisation
The Soapbox Postcard The Locker Room Parliament
Kev's Confusion Make Ads Not Law Nice One, Workers! Dog Eat Dog
Labor Council of NSW |
News Will They Know It's Christmas?
The Shop, Distributive and Allied Employers Association are calling attention to the fact that both days fall on Sundays this year, meaning employers are within their rights to ask employees to come to work.
"This leaves hundreds of thousands of employees in the retail industry, and all other industries that operate on weekends, deprived of any benefit or protection on two very significant days in the Australian Calendar," says branch secretary - treasurer of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees' Association, Gerard Dwyer. When Christmas or New Years Day falls on a weekend, the law shifts the day off workers are entitled to onto a weekday. As such, Christmas Day and New Year's Day will be observed on 26 December 2005 and 2 January 2006 respectively if the law remains unchanged, throwing a massive shadow over many family's plans. "Christmas Day in particular is of great importance to working families who see it as one of the few days in the year that all family members are able to spend together," says Dwyer. To stop people having to go to work on the actual Christmas and New Year's Days, Unions NSW will ask the state government to: Have Sunday 25 December declared as an additional Public Holiday Not allow shops to trade on the 25 December To restrict most shops from trading on 1 January 2006 and to make turning up to work voluntary for those who work in those shops that can trade on that day.
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