When has the Howard government ever cared about the UN and it's organisations?

Independant Contractors, what a farce, if you do "work" for only one company you are not a contractor you are an employee. I don't care what the law says.

This is a mechanism to reduce costs, these costs are, overtime rates, penalty rates, holiday pay, sick leave, maternity leave, paternity leave, superannuation, payroll tax, workers compensation insurance, payroll records, etc etc.

What company would not jump at the chance? Why does our Government encourage it?

Typical IPA rubbish, everything will be fine if only the pesky workers stopped wanting to be paid.
They should be begging to work for tea and sugar

Ken Philips omits to mention his role with the dodgy front group, Independent Contractors of Australia. See

http://workers.labor.net.au/308/news5_meyer.html

http://workers.labor.net.au/319/news1_day.html

Ken, you note correctly that “In short, the Queensland Act creates legal and economic nonsense and confusion. It distorts reality,” and that “In addition, no economy can succeed where certainty of commercial transaction is destroyed by either war, bad public policy or other causes. Where commercial uncertainty exists the opportunity to break poverty cycles and to achieve national and global economic equity is diminished.”

Welcome to the Alice-in-Wonderland state, where nothing is as it seems, and things are what Premier Beattie deems them to be. As an economic policy advisor in Queensland, I frequently stressed that (1) economic growth depends on private investors identifying and exploiting viable opportunities and that (2) the biggest disincentive to investment is sovereign risk, whereby the government arbitrarily changes the rules on which investment decisions are made. In the name of economic development, the Queensland government has, on the one hand, frequently provided discriminatory industry assistance on a “picking winners” basis (taxing viable firms to support non-viable firms), but on the other hand has frequently created sovereign risk, driving away potential investors. An example is inviting private sector investment in power stations, then rendering them non-viable by deciding to build further state-owned power stations which had not been on the agenda when private investment was sought

Hmmm, another "less pay for more work' agenda. I note that Howard is already backing away from that dog.

Most importantly the ILO has dropped the term "dependent contractor" and now states that:

1.A Worker is a generic term covering employees and independent contractors
2.An Employee is a particular form of legal relationship.
3.A dependent worker is an employee
4.An independent worker is an independent contractor.
Source: http://www.hrnicholls.com.au/nicholls/nichvo27/phillips2006.html

'In June 2006 the International Labour Organisation made a step in an historic, positive direction. Understanding the significance of
this step and following through with national and global policy alignment is the next challenge.'
'Communities increasingly do not define themselves in class warfare terms between workers and bosses [an untruth]. Issues that divide and unite communities are now more complex, diverse, unpredictable and fluid [a truth]. says Phillips.

So what we have here is an international global governance of Labour. Full Stop.

In Australia, if we follow the above two critiques fully, we see the creation of a two tiered social system. One level bureaucratic and
elite, the other peasant based and dis-enhanced by domestic drivel. Organs such as the ILO, and local affiliates such as the ACTU, will
be by default, your self-appointed bureaucratic representatives. To whom you will have either a social, or labour based contract. Full
stop.
They call it indentured labor. Its in Revelation 13:17.