There has been criticism of a CFMEU ad that shows Scott Morrison speeding a bus towards a group of workers, with employers saying it trivialises victims of road accidents.
AWU takes fight over fruit pickers pay to Fair Work Commission
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Blueberry pickers around Coffs Harbour have been paid as little as $3 an hour.
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Evidence of widespread wages theft in the fruit-picking sector could force the workplace umpire to close an industrial loophole that allows farms to pay foreign workers as little as $3 an hour, or $60 a day.
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The union says fruit and vegetable farms are the epicentre for exploitation
However, the National Farmers Federation defends the piece rate payment structure
The Australian Workers Union will today apply to the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to amend the current horticulture award to ensure farm workers receive the minimum casual wage of $24.80 an hour.
Steering unemployed young people into caring careers might just pay off
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Youth unemployment currently sits at more than 15 per cent.
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Beaches, barbecues, cricket and . industrial relations.
The parliamentary year ended with a heated and unresolved argument over workplace changes that will continue through the summer months for those who are bothered to put down their beer and pay any attention to it.
Workplace law isn t often a barbecue-stopping conversation, but Anthony Albanese will be trying to keep as many voters as possible tuned in. The penalty rates of frontline workers, he contends, are in grave danger. The Government says that s utter rubbish, to put it politely.
Work force? Battles lines drawn over PM s IR plan with no name
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When the Howard government was turfed out of office in the 2007 WorkChoices election, it left behind 5684 postcards, 77,893 pens and 100,000 mousepads, all bearing the name of the policy that doomed it.
John Howard had nailed his colours to the mast and went down with his ship.
In March 2008, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard revealed the incoming Labor government had found hundreds of thousands of left over WorkChoices supplies, inlcuding mouse pads, when it entered office.