Issue No 41 | 26 November 1999 | |
NewsLabor Hire Faces Deregulation
A proposal to deregulate labour hire firms would open the way to bodyhire cowboys and could lead to workers being forced to pay to get jobs, NSW unions have warned.
The NSW Department of Fair Trading is reviewing the Employments Agents Act, 1996, in line with federal government competition policy requirements, including the option of deregulating the industry altogether. But the NSW Labor Council says any move in this direction would strip the unemployed of important protections. The Act specifically prohibits jobseekers being charged a fee to be placed in work. Industry sources have warned Workers Online that in times of high demand for jobs, there was a real prospect that the unemployed would be slugged by unscrupulous operations. Labor Council secretary Michael Costa has also raised concerns that trade unions have not been invited to sit on a steering committee to oversee the review. "The review is against the entire thrust of where we believe the government should be going on labour hire", Costa says. "We have been saying there needs to be more regulation, not less." The move comes as the Carr Government sits on a Labor Council proposals to increase regulation for labour hire firms to force them to match enterprise agreement standards of the firm a business is placed in. After more than six months, the proposal is still to be taken to Cabinet.
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