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IR Revolution Likely To Continue If Howard Govt Re-elected22 August 2006In it’s Economic Survey of Australia the OECD has called for further IR reform. This coupled with the Government's hard line attitude to Industrial Relations could signal a third wave of IR changes should the Government be re-elected at the next election. The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation Development in a report earlier this month called for further reform saying that the current system is "very prescriptive" and "complex". Among the suggestions from the OECD is that Awards should be gradually phased out or that allowable matters in awards should be further limited. Though the Government's radical workchoices reform has proved immensely unpopular with the Australian public there are many within the Government who are aiming to further strip away protection for workers. Finance Minister Nick Minchin earlier this year called for further reform whilst acknowledging the publics disdain for the reforms "there is still a long way to go" "awards, the IR commission, all the rest of it" said Mr Minchin speaking to the HR Nicholls society. "Poll after poll demonstrated that the Australian people don't agree at all with anything that we are doing on this - we have minority support for what we are doing" "They violently disagree with what we're proposing" said Mr Minchin. The HSU fears that the latest OECD report will help the Government to justify making more unfair IR changes. "We have seen the effects of the latest IR changes in the last few months with substandard AWA's being offered by big businesses like QANTAS and a raft of unfair sackings at companies with under 100 employees." "I hope that we don't get to see what would be next on the Governments IR agenda come to fruition" said HSU National Secretary Craig Thomson. "If the Government are able to win re-election in 2007, we could see even more serious erosion of people's rights at work" |
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