David Peetz Professor of Employment Relations Griffith Business School Griffith University< Comments on the Fair Work Bill from his Senate submission No 132 focuses on specific matters of implementation or detail, or departure from the promises of Forward with Fairness. … ‘The right to request flexibility for an employee is an unduly negative approach to [...]
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Devils in the FWB
The submission from Carolyn Sutherland, Anthony Forsyth and Chris Arup Workplace and Corporate Law Research Group Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University 1. proposes that Part 2-2 of Division 12 of the Fair Work Bill be amended to include a requirement for employers to nominate in the Fair Work Information Statement the industrial [...]
AMWU criticises the FWb
5. Whilst the AMWU broadly welcomes the Bill and acknowledges that once enacted, the Bill will undoubtedly mean the end of many of the dire and draconian aspects of Work Choices and the restoration of many workers’ rights we believe that a number of further steps should be taken in the legislation to restore fairness, [...]
ACTU concerns with Fair Work bill
Some unionists are not aware of the ACTU Senate submission on the Fair Work bill. Here are headings of ACTU criticisms in PART 3 – CONCERNS WITH THE BILL that have to be addressed by Minister Gillard. 24 APPLICATION OF THE BILL. Independent contractors. Foreign ships. Public/community sector employees. 25 THE NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS. 26 [...]
The right to strike to save the environment?
Why shouldn’t there be a right to strike to save the environment in the Fair Work Bill? Why should workers and their unions be penalised when involved in bargaining on environmental protection claims? Why should workers be not legally allowed to attend legitimate protests such as community rallies against corporate and government failure to address [...]
Outlawing pattern bargaining unfair
The Fair Work Bill is not a fair collective bargaining system when the repressive WorkChoices outlawing on the right to strike for pattern or industry bargaining remain. Outlawing pattern and industry bargaining is still unfair. It does not meet any form of ‘keynesian demand management’ necessary to stimulate the econmy, but the reverse. The incessant [...]
FWB: More devils in the detail
Right of Entry does not give the freedom to be able to organise.Employees say that a difficulty is not being able to have their union organiser have right of entry. But the WorkChoices limitations stricter than earlier awards and what was in agreements remains in that the organiser must still have a valid permit to [...]
FWB: Corporations Law dominates
The Fair Work Bill based on the Corporations power is the dominance of corporate law over labour law. The High Court in the ‘WorkChoices’ decision held the Australian Constitution’s Corporations power allowed the Howard government legally the power to reduce the role of unions and to effectively extinguish workers rights and the IR systems created [...]
FWB: Unions downgraded
I argue that the Fair Work Bill downgrades legally the status of unions.Professor Harry Glasbeek argued (2008): ‘During the long reign of compulsory conciliation and arbitration, trade unions had become legitimate political participants. They had won the right to represent workers in an industry or occupation before a formally and functionally independent tribunal (the AIRC [...]
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