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Issue No. 306 | 12 May 2006 |
Good Times
Interview: Out of the Bedroom Industrial: Cloak and Dagger Unions: Lockout! Legal: The Fantasy of Choice Politics: Labor Pains Economics: Economics and the Public Purpose Corporate: House of Horrors History: Clash Of Cultures International: Childs Play Culture: Folk You Mate! Review: Last Holeproof Hero
Workplace Cop Shrugs Shoulders Gerry Built Apartments Fall Behind Killer Bosses Swoop on Croweaters US: Thousands Fired For Joining Unions
The Soapbox The Locker Room Parliament
Budget Dividend The Real Truth About Independent Contractors
Labor Council of NSW |
News NFF Axe Over Childcare
Houlihan�s company, IR Australia, has drafted AWAs that seek to dud employees at more than 50 Childs Family Kingergartens of every cent they won in a recent pay equity case that found they had been victims of the �undervaluing of women�s work�. IR Australia has stuck John Howard-endorsed individual contracts in front of directors of 37 centres across NSW. They seek to slash wages by a minimum of $138 a week, remove access to rest breaks, eliminate holiday loadings and cut sick pay entitlements. The same company has been contracted by Cubby House Australia to come up with a non-union agreement for its staff and, according to Ian West, MLC, it is near identical to those being foisted on Childs Family Kindergarten people. "They claim to tailor agreements to individual circumstances but these agreements are very similar and, in some parts, identical," West told Workers Online. West blew the story in a state parliament expose. "The owners and managers of these two organisations would like people to think they are family friendly and they support families," West said. "But they are treating employees with contempt and abusing their new-found master-servant relationship. "If workers sign these individual agreements they will lose between $138 and $313 per week, depending on their classifications. "It is a massive amount of money and they will lose it straight away.'' Workers Online has discovered that Houlihan, infamous for his roles in the Mudginberri dispute and the 1998 Waterfront shambles, orchestrated by Peter Reith and the NFF, is a director of IR Australia. According to its website, the company is fronted by Sydney-based Peter Rochfort.
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