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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?
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Call Centre Dials Up Future About 50 labour hire workers at the Artarmon call centre, employed on one-week contracts, received the news, last Friday, after getting only a 'handful of calls during the week. [full story] Greenfields Become Cotton Fields John Howard's new workplace regime includes provisions for �greenfields� employers to write their own wages and conditions schedules. [full story] PM Endorses Billy Boy Tactics Billy is one of the stars of the Howard regime's $100 million campaign to convince Australians they will benefit from lower wages and inferior conditions. [full story] Stats Go Missing An Australian Bureau of Statistics circular reveals the methods of pay setting component of the next two-yearly survey of Employee Earnings and Hours has been canned, ensuring there will be no statistical review of workplace change before Australians cast their ballots in the 2007 federal election. [full story] Paper Tiger in Protection Racket The Office of Workplace Services admitted to a 2004 Senate hearing that, in the 2002-03 year, it hadn't prosecuted a single employer, anywhere in Australia, for breaching an award or agreement. [full story] Thugs Are Go! The tactics of sacking a workforce and shifting them out with balaclava-ed guards and dogs on chains would have been lawful under the proposed changes, legal experts have warned. [full story]
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The entire workforce of one of the Howard Government's WorkChoice hotlines has learned first-hand about the future of job security, after being told not to turn up to work next week.
Canberra will promote individual contracts by allowing new businesses to negotiate wages and conditions with themselves, while threatening unions with bans, fines and deregistration.
Federal Government has come clean on its plan to �billy� young Australians out of wages, holiday entitlements, overtime and penalty rates.
With lies, damned lies and statistics dominating the workplace debate, Canberra has decided to take statistics out of the equation.
Non-unionists with problems at work will have to rely on a federal government agency with an abysmal enforcement record.
Peter Reith and Chris Corrigan would have got away with their assault on maritime workers if WorkChoices laws had been in force in 1998.
