Fed: Labor's IR plans just window dressing - ACCI =2

AAP General News (Australia)
08-28-2007
Fed: Labor's IR plans just window dressing - ACCI =2

Mr Hendy said Labor's transition arrangements over two years would still eventually
see AWAs done away with.

"They have done little to change the policy, in substance, that they announced in April,"

he said.

He said in regard to the $100,000 cut-off for collective agreements, most people above
that level would be in management positions and would not have been subject to the award
system in the past.

"Only 4.5 per cent of the employees in this country are above $100,000," he said.

"Where people are talking about the mining industry where there is large salary increases
for non-managerial staff, 65 per cent earn well below $100,000."

However, he did find one positive in Labor's proposal.

"We are happy that they have decided to keep the secondary boycott provisions in the
Trade Practices Act, and that is a good development, because Labor had proposed getting
rid of that for many, many years," he said.

"But look, that has been the law for 11 years in this country and they shouldn't be changing it."

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