WorkplaceChoices

WorkChoices – it’s all about choice.
The following choices have been removed:

The ability of the AIRC to determine minimum wage
The ability of the AIRC to deal with awards
The ability to have an unfair disadvantage test on AWAs
The ability to have more than the 4 guaranteed conditions
The right to have your award not stripped apart by the ART
No compulsory power of conciliation by the AIRC
No compulsory power of arbitration by the AIRC
The ability for employees (under 100) to make unfair dismissal claims
The ability to have a 3 month maximum probation review time
The ability to avoid the government having direct power over wages
The right not to have ordinary hours averaged over 12 months
The ability to have an agreement prohibiting AWAs
Or restricting the use of independent hire contractors or on-hire arrangements
Or allowing for industrial action during the term of an agreement
Or that provides for trade union training leave
Or bargaining fees to trade unions or paid union meetings
Or that provide that any future agreement must be a union collective agreement
Or that mandates union involvement in dispute resolution
Or that provide a remedy for unfair dismissal
Or any other matters proscribed by regulation/legislation
The ability to take industrial action to prevent the above
The ability to not get fined $30,000 for doing the above
The ability to not have a secret ballot before industrial action
The ability to even apply to have a vote when:
It is just after the expiry of an existing agreement
and if a bargaining period has been notified to the AIRC
The ability to have classifications of employees and rates of pay in awards
The ability to have annual leave in awards
The ability to have personal/carers leave in awards
The ability to have parental leave in awards
The ability to have skills-based career paths in awards
The ability to have restrictions on apprenticeships/traineeships in awards
The ability to have enterprise flexibility provisions in awards
The ability to have independent contractor provisions in awards
The ability to have labour hire worker clauses in awards
The ability to have union picnic day clauses in awards
The ability to have tallies in awards
The ability to have trade union training leave in awards

There are more, for some reason I got a bit upset with writing it and smashed my keyboard...
With my head.