Well, duhhh.
According to an ABS study with a very convenient release date (who said the public service was being politicised?) people on individual contracts and/or enterprise bargaining agreements earn more than those on awards:
The ninemsn* article does mention the ACTU's fears about the proposed IR changes:
Of course, it doesn't say why the unions argue this; the scrapping of the 'no disadvantage' rule.
I don't know if the changes are going to be a good thing or not, but I find it ominous that just last week John Howard refused to repeat his "ironclad guarantee that you can't earn less under our system, but you can earn more"**, made to the Young Liberals in the 1996 election campaign.
*I've never read anything by RWDB's complaining about ninemsn's bias
**May be a slight misquote, memories are never perfect.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics' latest social trends study found workers on collective agreements and individual contracts have higher hourly rates of pay.
Based on the earnings of adult, full-time non-managerial workers in 2004, those who have their pay set by collective agreements earned an average $24.10 every hour.
Those on individual contracts also earned $23.30 an hour while those on award pay rates received $16.70 an hour.
The ninemsn* article does mention the ACTU's fears about the proposed IR changes:
Unions argue that workers will be worse off under the changes with overtime, weekend and public holiday penalty pay, allowances, redundancy pay and other conditions which boost pay packets at risk of being scrapped by employers.
Of course, it doesn't say why the unions argue this; the scrapping of the 'no disadvantage' rule.
I don't know if the changes are going to be a good thing or not, but I find it ominous that just last week John Howard refused to repeat his "ironclad guarantee that you can't earn less under our system, but you can earn more"**, made to the Young Liberals in the 1996 election campaign.
*I've never read anything by RWDB's complaining about ninemsn's bias
**May be a slight misquote, memories are never perfect.
posted by Dirk at 2:40 am
6 Comments:
Dirk--I just wanted to type the word stimulating. Again. Hee hee
why can't they leave the stupid existing system alone? it's not great, but it works.
like when they introduced the gst. sure it sounded great in theory, but in practice, it's just as screwed, and everyone had to change to use it.
kinda makes me think of dilbert's pointy haired boss and catbert, the evil hr director, trying to think up new ways to irritate/scare/annoy-the-fuck-out-of the workers
"those who have their pay set by collective agreements earned an average $24.10 every hour."
Who are these people? Where the hell do they find them?
Cant,
stimulating,
stimulating,
stimulatimg.
Nope, nuthin'.
Must be a girl thing.
Rat,
these changes are the reason Howard stayed in politics when it looked like his career was over. The Liberal Party likes to think of itself as the nesting place of economic wisdom - despite the blindingly obvious fact that thirteen years of Labour did more to reshape the Autralian economy than all the conservative governments put together - and their idea of economic wisdom is to pay their workers as little as possible.
Peemil,
there's quite a few of them out this way, mainly due to the shortage of tradesmen.
So, what's the average cost of living down-under? Can I get a job there? :)
Cant,
this is the worker's Utopia, where everybody who wants to can work and some of them even get paid. The cost of living here is pretty much the same as it is at your place - $20 more than you got.
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