Issue No 34 | 08 October 1999 | |
NewsSecurity Employers Break Law in West
Security firms are supposed to uphold the law. But 41 per cent of employers break industrial laws, according to a Western Australian Government study.
Most of these employers are not paying correct award wage and penalty rates. And of those employers not breaking the law, up to 28% are using State Workplace Agreements to legally cut wages and conditions. The survey also revealed that, of 694 employees on State Workplace Agreements, 574 were casual. This high ratio of casuals shows again how individual contracts undercut conditions. Union Branch Secretary Helen Creed said the study backed up LHMU experience that many security companies are not fit to operate. 'If they can't obey the law and pay legal wages and conditions, then what are these companies doing in the security industry?' Creed says.
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Interview: A Crack to the Skull Rail, Tram and Bus Union state secretary Nick Lewocki took on the Carr Government�s radical rail refrom agenda and walked away a winner. He looks back on the week the trains stood still. Economics: Green Backs and Dirty Dollars Paul Ehlrich says the real culprit behind the environmental crisis isn't so much the huge numbers of people in the world or conspicuous over-consumption in the West but an economic system that confuses price with cost. Unions: Tally Ho! A landmark meat industry decision might not have the impact the reith cheer-squad hopes for. History: The Western Express West Australian historians are undertaking a project to chronicle that state's rich rail history. Republic: The Referendum: A Spot of Reading John Passant looks a the propaganda passing as information in the lead-up to the referendum. Indigenous: Australia Snubs Nose at the UN The United Nations General Assembly will be told that Australia has breached an international convention on racial discrimination that Malcolm Fraser�s Government ratified 24 years ago. International: Desert Flashpoint The United Nations has confirmed that demonstrations were suppressed in Western Sahara last month. Review: Temper Democratic Humphrey McQueen has been a fearless critic of received opinions across a range of subjects for many years, and as a consequence has been criticised or more often ignored in debates in Australia. Satire: Tax Cuts Come in the Nick of Time for Struggling Packers Welfare groups have called upon on the Federal Government to bring forward the date of proposed capital gains tax cuts. Labour Review: What's New in the Information Centre Read the latest issue of Labour Review, a resource for union officials and students.
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