The official IR reform thread! (3 Viewers)

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Union challenges law on docked pay

 

[frog12986]

Does anyone know what has, or is eventuating with the high court challenge against the reforms? It seems to have just faded out of the news spotlight...

 

[CSI: CRIMES ™]

this is kind of offtopic but what courses that is around whether tafe or uni, that concentrates on learning about the IR reforms???

 

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Does anyone know what has, or is eventuating with the high court challenge against the reforms? It seems to have just faded out of the news spotlight...

QUENTIN DEMPSTER: The High Court of Australia is expected to rule on the constitutional validity of Work Choices within the next two or three months.

Stateline

The timeframe given by Stateline corresponds with what I heard during an hourly news bulletin sometime last week - probably within the month.

 

[Rafy]

Unions dishonest on IR ads: Howard

Prime Minister John Howard has accused the union movement of resorting to dishonesty in its campaign against his government's new workplace laws.

The ACTU was on the back foot after allegations its television campaign against WorkChoices did not tell the full story about Australian employees who feature in the ads.

Inquiries by the government's Office of Workplace Services (OWS) found inconsistencies in the televised testimonies of the sacked workers.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/Natio...n-IR-ads-Howard/2006/07/26/1153816240770.html

Union IR claims 'false'
THE stars of a union advertising campaign attacking the Federal Government's workplace laws have nobody to blame but themselves for being out of work, the industrial relations regulator has found.
As part of the Australian Council of Trade Unions campaign to undermine the changes, the workers told millions of television viewers how they had been sacked by callous bosses taking advantage of the new laws.

Findings of an investigation by the Office of Workplace Services, obtained by The Advertiser , revealed most of the workers would have lost their jobs even before the laws were introduced.


http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,19913994-5006301,00.html

http://news.google.com.au/news?hl=e...n-IR-ads-Howard/2006/07/26/1153816240770.html

 

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Combet responds - ACTU Condemns Disgraceful Federal Govt Attack On Sacked Workers

 

[P_Dilemma]

I believe that the IR reforms arenecessary in the long run.
I believe that the gov't has been imatient. They let this cat outta the bag way too soon. Australia, as a society and as an economy, isn't ready for this yet.

Economically, it's sound. Lower production costs, more efficient allocation of resourced, allow the market to decide prices.

Socially, though, the costs far outweigh the benefits. I can say with litle doubt that the distribution of income will become more unequal, that there will be a widening gap between rich and poor. Some people will be worse off, as we live in a specialised-education society (ie, people will find it hard to adapt to different economic conditions [find different jobs]). The only people who will benefit are those high up in the money-chain. They'll be laughing their asses off at the rest of us.

J-ho must be thinking: "ooh, we've got a senate majority, we'd better do as much shit as we can..."

-P_D

 

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Unions claim $30 pay increase

Baillieu snubs IR revolution

ACTU pitches for $30 rise for low-paid workers (closing paragraph relates to Office of Workplace Services' recent investigation).

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Edit: Kind of late, I know - Businesses pressure Govt for more workplace change (20/7).

 

[Silver Persian]

John Howard was just on TV calling for wage growth for low skilled workers. Tsk Tsk Tsk...wages should not be increased when 4% inflation was just released...

*Hopes for wage/oil/banana induced inflation spiral*

 

[Rafy]

OECD Warning: don't relax on work changes

ONE of the world's leading economic institutions has urged Australia to introduce more workplace changes to improve labour market flexibility and supply.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said the legislation that came into effect this year had simplified the industrial relations system.

However, more changes were needed "which would allow greater scope for bargaining over workplace conditions", its annual survey of the Australian economy said.[...]
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/warning-dont-relax-on-work-changes/2006/07/31/1154198076273.html

Part of the OECD report can be viewed at http://www.oecd.org/document/2/0,2340,en_2649_201185_37177410_1_1_1_1,00.html

 

[ZabZu]

Part of the OECD report can be viewed at http://www.oecd.org/document/2/0,2340,en_2649_201185_37177410_1_1_1_1,00.html

Lots of the European OECD members have extensive regulation of their labour markets. Theres much more government intervention in Europe than the old IR system here.

 

[banco55]

Lots of the European OECD members have extensive regulation of their labour markets. Theres much more government intervention in Europe than the old IR system here.

Have a look at their unemployment rates.

 

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Survey finds small business wary of new IR laws

 

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We didn't lie in ads: Combet

 

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Howard ramps up IR laws sell

John Howard has announced that Joe Hockey will become Minister assisting the Minister for Workplace Relations as well as being Human Services Minister.

Mr Howard says Kevin Andrews is doing an excellent job in his portfolio of Employment and Workplace Relations.

But he says given the size of the changes and the public focus, he has decided to give Mr Andrews some assistance.

Kevin Andrews may be a competent minister, but his performance to date has hardly been excellent. Joe Hockey seems like a good choice, because unlike Mr Andrews, he actually has a public profile that stretches beyond his electorate (in Sydney, at least).

 

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Howard boasts as jobs surge

 

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Beazley urged to rethink IR plans

 

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Unions cry foul over fair pay process

 

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State-based national wage cases proposed

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Does anyone know what has, or is eventuating with the high court challenge against the reforms? It seems to have just faded out of the news spotlight...

QUENTIN DEMPSTER: The High Court of Australia is expected to rule on the constitutional validity of Work Choices within the next two or three months.

Stateline

Anyone with anything new regarding the High Court challenge?

 

[Not-That-Bright]

D. Barnett, ‘The Corporations Power and Federalism: Key Aspects of the Constitutional Validity of the WorkChoices Act’ (2006) 29 University of New South Wales Law Journal 91.

Can't login to the library internets atm tho I'm afraid.