Comments on: Introducing SerfChoices: Australias New Industrial Relations Laws

By: Neerav

Neerav — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:13:53 +0000

A new study of the Federal Government’s WorkChoices laws show low-skilled employees, like childcare workers or shop assistants, are earning less on Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) than those on collective arrangements.

On average those on AWAs, according to the report, are earning $100 a week less.
- excerpt from ABC News article WorkChoices study fires up political debate

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:32:03 +0000

John Howard, you should be so ashamed of yourself for what you have done to the little worker. Just last week the company i work for did away with leave loading for their newer workers. That is to say, she has been employed full time for at least eighteen months. Workers who have recently been employed are on lower wages than the older workers. In the last three years my pay has gone up about $1.50. Not being skilled AWAs are a joke and my boss who thinks shes born to rule would laugh her ass off at the request.

By: Neerav

Neerav — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:20:44 +0000

Tomorrow, WorkChoices will have been in operation for a year. The Victorian Government has just released new research examining the evidence that does exist on its impact.

Survey evidence suggests that the gender pay gap has widened considerably, and particularly in the private sector. Women and casual employees (often overlapping categories) are the biggest losers under WorkChoices.
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The general thrust of the report is to emphasise the negative impact of WorkChoices on those already disadvantaged in the labour market, and to suggest that the legislation is doing what it was designed to do – restraining wages growth in a tight labour market and enabling corporate profits to continue to soar.

-EXcerpt from Crickey.com.au article WorkChoices is electoral poison: new study

By: Neerav

Neerav — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:37:53 +0000

The new workplace laws have cut wages, stripped overtime penalties and removed award protections for workers, according to … Professor David Peetz, of Griffith Business School … The study showed nearly 20,000 workers a month had permanently lost their award coverage after signing Australian workplace agreements and other non-union agreements, which can remove formerly protected conditions such as overtime, penalty rates and rest breaks.

excerpt from SMH article Women are hardest hit by workplace laws