Comments on: IR changes will damage the fabric of society http://www.redrag.net/2005/06/21/ir-report-card/ "The thinking Laborite would as lief be found in bed with a cobra as in a committee room armed with 'arguments' from the Tory press." --- Truth, Perth, 19 June 1915. Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:29:18 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: lightsight http://www.redrag.net/2005/06/21/ir-report-card/comment-page-1/#comment-9785 lightsight Sat, 25 Jun 2005 15:49:36 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2005/06/21/1323/#comment-9785 Re: above note, well, all you will find is that the business that survive are those that work by rat tactics or are family owned and operated. I think that Australians will start to lose out on the lower end jobs. People from overseas on a holiday/work visa will be the ones sweeping those positions up as they are happy for any sort of paid employment and have no long term stability requirements anyway to be bothered by any IR changes. So where does that leave us? Low end jobs are usually the bread and butter for students for instance. I suppose that means you should only consider doing tertiary education if you were quite sure you would be good at it and able to get a decent job after you finished because it would be a long time to be living solely off youth allowance. The other group that comes to mind to be greatly affected would be those with parenting or caring requirements. It's hard enough to find a job that lets you work part time. Now you'd be freaking out every time you applied for a day's leave for family reasons. And to think I read not that long ago about a push to try and get mothers back into paid work as soon as practicable. Re: above note, well, all you will find is that the business that survive are those that work by rat tactics or are family owned and operated. I think that Australians will start to lose out on the lower end jobs. People from overseas on a holiday/work visa will be the ones sweeping those positions up as they are happy for any sort of paid employment and have no long term stability requirements anyway to be bothered by any IR changes.

So where does that leave us? Low end jobs are usually the bread and butter for students for instance. I suppose that means you should only consider doing tertiary education if you were quite sure you would be good at it and able to get a decent job after you finished because it would be a long time to be living solely off youth allowance.

The other group that comes to mind to be greatly affected would be those with parenting or caring requirements. It’s hard enough to find a job that lets you work part time. Now you’d be freaking out every time you applied for a day’s leave for family reasons. And to think I read not that long ago about a push to try and get mothers back into paid work as soon as practicable.

]]> By: tony http://www.redrag.net/2005/06/21/ir-report-card/comment-page-1/#comment-9750 tony Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:12:21 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2005/06/21/1323/#comment-9750 By creating tiered conditions of employment, only tiered quality of employees can follow. Noboby with half a brain will be loyal to somebody who doesn't HAVE to be loyal to them. Job insecurity will have more of a major effect the golden word, productivity, than any other workplace concern. By creating tiered conditions of employment, only tiered quality of employees can follow. Noboby with half a brain will be loyal to somebody who doesn’t HAVE to be loyal to them. Job insecurity will have more of a major effect the golden word, productivity, than any other workplace concern.

]]> By: observa http://www.redrag.net/2005/06/21/ir-report-card/comment-page-1/#comment-9741 observa Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:57:25 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2005/06/21/1323/#comment-9741 "Fairness at work have been things that have stood in this country for 100 years and within a short 12-page statement by our prime minister much of it seems to be swept away." Omigawd, conservative academics attacking progressive Howard! Sounds like time for a full page newspaper spread from a cloister of concerned academics. “Fairness at work have been things that have stood in this country for 100 years and within a short 12-page statement by our prime minister much of it seems to be swept away.”

Omigawd, conservative academics attacking progressive Howard! Sounds like time for a full page newspaper spread from a cloister of concerned academics.

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