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Issue No. 307 | 19 May 2006 |
Open for Business?
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
Laughing All The Way To MacBank Perth Apartments Go Like a Bomb Andrews Puts Contracts on Families Worker Dumped Over Casual Affair
The Soapbox The Locker Room Parliament
Pleased with Beazley What is Working Class National Day of Protest Tax Cuts Solidarity Independent Contractors Drought Proofing Higher Profile for Labor
Labor Council of NSW |
Industrial Independent Contractors
Congratulations on your editorial. The Independent Contractors Act is more of a threat to working families than even Workchoices. Its ambition is simple but bold. It is to eliminate altogether 'employment' law as such, and reduce every person in the labour market to nothing more than a pair of hands/brain for hire, with as little rights as the computer sitting on the manager's desk, and with fewer protections. It is the ultimate in outsourcing - it is a way of devolving every 'risk' of existence onto the sturdy shoulders of each individual and their family. A simple way to reduce the cost of employment is to simply have no employees! The costs of living then become someone else's problem-the contractor's of course! Bingo! It is time that the implications of this strategy and its meaning for households everywhere was highlighted. By the way, the fanfare for the legislation could be read in the journal IPA Review in February this year. This is a right wing rag whose sources of funding might be usefully pursued by a busy funster, although you would find the usual suspects. They had a goergeous little peice about a conference where independent contractors talked and wrote about the joys of throwing off the shackles of employment and being able to work as long as they wanted! It was a corker. Linda Carruthers, NSW
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