Overhaul of workplace laws on cards in Australia
Australias workplace laws are to undergo a major overhaul which will strip the basic safety net for millions of workers to a handful of conditions and remove the right of appeal for people who claim to have been sacked unfairly.
The Age reports the new laws will also impose a six-month probation period for new employees, change the way the minimum wage is set and collapse thousands of industrial awards into a few hundred. The overhaul, creating a single national industrial relations system, culminates a two-decade-long campaign by John Howard for sweeping changes to Australia\'s workplace laws. Full report in The Age