Avoidance or compliance? Labor administration strengthened The state apparatus at all levels has stronger compliance powers. Whether they employ sanctions against businesses in breach will be seen. The labor administration departments are to ensure improved investigation, supervision and inspections of companies. Cooney (2007b) details inadequacies in bureaucratic (non)implementation of earlier workplace rules. With inadequate numbers [...]
Women face challenges to hold onto rights at work against blackheart Howard 26/6/2005
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WorkCover: Rann Cuts Injured Workers Entitlements March 2008
The history of SA WorkCover is important. I arrived early March 2008 into Adelaide from Canberra. I found great controversy over the Rann ALP Government’s Bill to cut entitlements to injured workers. The unions were opposed, the employers in support. The debate was on. I decided to keep out of the contest having retired some [...]
China: Workers and Unions – News July to September 2008
1. More MNC workers to get bargaining power China Daily 18 july 2008 More workers in multinational companies will be able to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests by September, a senior trade union official has said. Workers have been able to form trade unions in less than 50 percent of the Fortune Global 500 [...]
From Penal Colony to Penal Powers
The right to strike yesterday and today The right to strike is always agreed in principle. “We won’t remove the right to strikeâ€, the Work Choices ads said. Employers agree—subject to restrictions to protect their class interests. The Australian Council of Trade Union policy is for the workers’ right to withdraw labour without sanctions. Labor, [...]
China’s new Labor Laws: employment contract reforms
November 2007 China’s new labor law system on employment contracts promises to protect their precarious workforce from the excesses of capitalism. The 10th National People’s Congress (NPC) passed Labor Law Contracts on June 29th 2007. They are in force from 1st January 2008. What are the industrial relations issues addressed? What are the new rights [...]
Provoking Construction and Building Workers 2005 Senate submission
‘The right of workers to leave their jobs is a test of freedom. Hitler suppressed strikes. Stalin suppressed strikes. But each also suppressed freedom. There are some things worse than strikes, much worse than strikes – one of them is the loss of freedom.’ US Republican President Eisenhower. ‘WE WON’T take away the right to [...]
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