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Issue No. 309 | 02 June 2006 |
When the Truth Hurts
Interview: Rock Solid Industrial: Eight Simple Rules for Employing My Teenage Daughter Politics: The Johnnie Code Energy: Fission Fantasies History: All The Way With Clarrie O'Shea International: Closer to Home Economics: Taking the Fizz Unions: Stronger Together Review: Montezuma's Revenge Poetry: Fair Go Gone
You're Killing Us - BHP Charged Again Revealed: Beaconsfield Led AWA Charge Independent Schools Push Class Warfare Sutton Wants Middle Men Probed ATO Recruiting for WorkChoices
The Soapbox The Locker Room Parliament Education
Labor Council of NSW |
News ATO Recruiting for WorkChoices
Last week's policy backflip denies apprentices and unskilled labourers the protections of industrial relations law by allowing employers to use them as contractors. "The ATO has broken a cast iron promise to stop the inappropriate issue of ABNs to apprentices and labourers - the treatment of these young apprentices is particularly outrageous," CFMEU national secretary, John Sutton, said. Mr Sutton said the move would allow employers to duck costs such as holiday pay, sick leave and superannuation. "How can an apprentice be an independent business when they have to be connected to an employer to work through their apprenticeship?" Sutton asked. Mr Sutton said that it was obvious that the Federal Government was pressuring the ATO to allow this arrangement to continue. "This is a scam and the Federal Government is clearly interfering with the tax office and preventing it from doing its required statutory duty," Sutton said. The back down occured as NSW Industrial Relations Minister, John Della Bosca, flagged a possible High Court challenge to federal Independent Contractors legislation. A spokesman for the Minister said the challenge would be based on a successful 1995 High Court action against attempts to regulate contracts relating to constitutional corporations.
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