IR Laws: "Fairness" to the Employer!

"If they don't want to sign, they can leave," he said. "It's not about what's fair, it's [about] what's right - right for the company."

That about sums it all up! Despite all the hyperbole and rhetoric - and the Minister for Workplace Relations, Kevin Andrews, who doesn't know exactly what "his" legislation means so that the Courts will have to determine so - the effect of the new IR laws is already clearly evident.

Read this piece from this morning's SMH - and despair, and be outraged, at how the vulnerable are at risk in their pay and conditions being severely downgraded. Or should that be "degraded" rather than downgraded? But, as the boss quoted above says in the SMH article, what's fair is what's right for the employer!

As for Minister Andrews [a lawyer] - and Peter Costello, also a lawyer, on ABC Radio the other day - not knowing what the legislation means is a disgrace. According to the AFR on Saturday, no less than 5 lawyers from 5 large legal firms were seconded to assist in the drafting of the legislation. Oh yes! The very same firms which will become heavily "involved" in the spin-off the new IR laws.

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