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Employers want to undermine workers' basic rights : Comments
By Jeff Lawrence, published 16/9/2009It is becoming clear that many employers don’t want a modern award system - they want no awards at all.
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Posted by rehctub, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 6:50:56 PM
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Flexabile working hours for child minding.
The new IR laws will allow all workers who have young children, or who are carers for disabled up to 18, the right to request more appropriate working hours to better suit their needs.
So, the employee has to make such a request (in writting) and the employer can either grant such request or deny on 'reasonable business grounds'.
Sounds fair, hey!
Trouble is, the term 'reasonable business grounds' has no definition within the new laws and, if the employer denies such a request, the employee 'has no grounds or support for rejecting the refusal'.
Can you believe it!
So, in a year or two, or how ever long it takes for these wan-kers to decide this law is unworkable, they will just waste more millions re-writting yet another botched piece of legislation.
And to think their supporters thought they were the smarter of the two lots we had to choose from!
Where's Jeff. Perhaps he can put some light on this subject, if anyone can find him that is. Maybe he is busy with Sharon!