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18 May 2001 |
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NewsBosses Raise Stakes in State Wage Case
Employer groups have thrown a spanner in the works of the State Wage Case by seeking to stymie the use of consent awards struck directly between unions and employers. The eleventh hour move by the major employer organizations has turned what should have been a routine flow-on of the federal decision into a complex technical battle before the NSW Industrial Relations Commission. While, none of the employers are opposing the flow-on of the wage increases awarded by the AIRC earlier this month, they've sought a change to one of the major principles in the State Wage Case - one that wasn't even raised in the national case. "What they want to do is introduce a new Consent Award Principle, that would put new tests and barriers before unions and employers when they want to have an award made by the Commission," Labor Council's Chris Christodoulou says. "This would mean that, even where a union and employer has reached agreement, the employer organization could intervene to argue the award is against the general economic interest of the state." Christodoulou says the main thrust is to stop unions and employers reaching their own agreements for better wages and conditions of employment. "The irony of course is that while employers talk about the virtues of direct bargaining at the work place, they now want the ability to ask the Commission to over-ride agreements made directly between unions and the employers." Parties have filed submissions on the application and the matter will be heard in the Commission this week. A decision is expected within two weeks.
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