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What do AWAs really pay? : Comments
By David Peetz and Alison Preston, published 20/7/2007Research indicates that AWAs are frequently used for cost cutting or union avoidance.
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I'm 49, so remember very well what it was like in the 80's. I've worked for 32 years. In the public sector and private sector.
I've also had businesses with my husband and been an employer. I know how hard it is in business. In all that time we've had one employee from hell who took us to Industrial Relations. Sure it was scary. We too believed all those stories of the 'power' of Unions and Industrial Relations to 'destroy' your business. The big bad bogeyman was a myth.
If as an employer you do the right thing, are honest, keep good and transparent records there never was any agency who was going to cause your business to fail. Failure or down turn in a business is NOT the fault of employees. Wages are the last in the list.
For many private business employers, many who are very mediocre at running a business in the first place, the temptation to reduce the payroll, whichever way, is the easiest way to improve outgoings vs income. Work Choices now make it even easier for incompetent businesses to stay open.