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[bumbklaatt]

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[chunkyy]

In order to survive in the compeditive business world you need to be able to squeeze every dollar you can out of your workers. Of course workers are going to be worse off if you give employees more flexability. Thats logic.

[bumbklaatt]

At the expense of workers?

Why is it that people now think that the benefit of a company is more important than the benefits of it's workers?

I will never understand that. I work to live, not live to work.

[chunkyy]

I might not have made it clear, but I *was* agreeing with you. Its appalling that the average worker is treated this way in australia. The new laws continue to piss me off as much as everyone else.

Yeah, reading that again it kinda does sound like I was disagreeing. Sorry, I'm at work and I have the flu :P

[chunkyy]

And that was from me, obviously :P

[durry]

I heard/read/something the other day that Kevin Rudd vowed to abolish all AWA's if he got in power. This is sufficient to make me vote for the minature dog-faced weasel again. I like my AWA.

[bumbklaatt]

Yes, but AWAs aren't really designed to screw over skilled workers, like you or I.

They're designed to be able to easily get rid of your blue collar, unskilled workers who may not be needed for 3 months. You can just hire back more unskilled labourers when things get busy again.

[chunkyy]

The real effects of the IR law changes won't be felt until the next time we have an economic downturn. While unemployment rares are good now, they won't always be. Supply and Demand.

(I might add that in the past economic downturns usual follow in the wake of a labour victory. This is just because labour tends to be nicer to employees, which results in less profits. Interesting.)

[bumbklaatt]

I think that's a common misconception about Labor