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Issue No. 312 | 23 June 2006 |
Striking Out Rights
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
Stoner's Cognitive Faculties Functioning Elderly Face WorkChoices Assault
The Soapbox The Locker Room Parliament Education
Fire Up Big Dog
Labor Council of NSW |
Letters to the Editor More Proof
I am just an ordinary Australian trying to make ends meet. I am a carer for my elderly mother and i have had to gain part time work to make the money go round. It is not enough that I am constantly hassled by Centrelink, but I also believe that I am being cheated by the new workplace regulations. One of my part time jobs is a console operator at a local service station. To get the job i had to sign the workplace agreement, only to find that I am only being paid a basic rate of pay for casual work ($16.80 an hour) which increases once I have finished doing compulsory induction training (to $18.80 an hour) there are no penalty rates for weekends (I work mainly nights 6pm to midnight at weekends) or public holidays.m According to the federal award I would be entitled to $24.43 an hour for weekends and public holidays. Fair? I don't think so; used and abused more like it. I'm looking for other employment. At present I am definitely worse off under the new regulations. Jan Wynd, Vic
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