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 Home Campaigns Your Rights At Work News
Journalists forced to cash out holidays11 July 2005Journalists at a Western Australian newspaper are being forced to cash out part of their holidays. Western Australian Newspapers, publishers of the West Australian, have told staff they will forfeit the right to their full holidays when they sign an Australian Workplace Agreement (individual contract). New employees are required to sign the AWA before they start. The media union, the Media, Arts and Entertainment Alliance, said that existing staff were given no option if they wanted a pay rise. The AWA includes a clause where the employer can decide whether to pay out up to 10 days of an employee's holidays. HSU national secretary Craig Thomson said the case was proof that the current system allowed core conditions to be undermined. "It is only going to be easier to do this if the Howard Government gets its changes to workplace laws through parliament," he said. "Under those changes employers will be able to pressure their staff to trade away half of their four weeks leave for a pay rise. "The government says an employee has to agree but some will have no choice if they want a pay rise. "Two weeks annual leave is not enough. That is what they get in the United States and we don't want that sort of system here." Contact Details Health Services Union of Australia hsu@hsu.net.au |
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