• One of the federal Coalition government’s proposed industrial relations changes will allow bosses to force workers onto individual contracts that cut pay and reduce conditions to just five minimum standards.

• Workers who refuse to sign individual contracts may face the threat of sacking.

• Under current laws, any individual contract offered to a worker must contain pay rates and conditions at least equal to entitlements under the current award. The new laws will undermine this “no disadvantage test” and remove workers’ right to a range of basic conditions.

• Many workers will lose conditions like weekend, shift and public holiday rates; overtime; redundancy pay; allowances; and casual loadings.

[Source: <http://www.actu.asn.au/work_rights>.]

From Green Left Weekly, July 20, 2005.
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