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McDonaldâs wants the fast food industry to be included in consideration for simplified pay rules, warning businesses in the sector will face a tougher recovery without changes, and sparking a new battle over whether the fast food giant should be allowed to trade penalty rates for higher âloaded ratesâ.
From Thursday the Fair Work Commission will examine the pay rates of sectors including restaurants, clubs, hotels and retail, but the Fast Food Award has been excluded from the review, which is part of a government-backed plan to stop accidental underpayment by confused bosses and give businesses confidence to hire more staff.
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When the Howard government was turfed out of office in the 2007 WorkChoices election, it left behind 5684 postcards, 77,893 pens and 100,000 mousepads, all bearing the name of the policy that doomed it.
John Howard had nailed his colours to the mast and went down with his ship.
In March 2008, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard revealed the incoming Labor government had found hundreds of thousands of left over WorkChoices supplies, inlcuding mouse pads, when it entered office.
Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Sally McManus described the Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 as “dangerous and extreme”. She compared it to former-prime minister John Howard’s attacks on unions and workplace rights under the WorkChoices legislation.
“WorkChoices allowed employers to cut wages, and this proposal will do that as well”, McManus said on December 8. “When WorkChoices was introduced [in 2006] employers rushed out to cut wages, the same will happen if this law passes. Some workers are still stuck with WorkChoices pay cuts some 13 years later.”
McManus said the bill, if made law, would hit young workers, casuals and insecure workers the hardest because it effectively further entrenches casualisation.
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