Business groups are lobbying Peter Dutton and the Coalition to slash the rights of Australian workers if he’s elected – and these are just some of the things on their wish list:
- Scrapping awards.
- Stripping away workers’ protections against unfair dismissal and wage theft by changing the definition of small business from under 15 workers to under 50 workers
- 3. Excluding certain workers from enterprise agreements.
Recently, business groups lobbied politicians to change the definition of a small business from 15 to 25 employees. Now, they’re stepping it up to 50.
This change alone would see the working rights of up to a million Australian workers go backwards.
Slashing worker rights
Furthermore, one CEO said that big business “should collectively campaign as hard as possible to pressure future governments to do what needs to be done to the IR framework” (read: slash workers’ rights) and supported the idea that “WorkChoices didn’t go far enough”.
Stronger calls from big business show just how far business groups and the Coalition are willing to go to cut workers’ pay and conditions given the opportunity.
@aus.unions Big business want the Liberals to repeal awards! You know the safety net of all workers in all industries.
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Over the last two years, union members have been at the forefront of winning the biggest changes to workers’ rights in generations, empowering millions of workers.
Like all the rights union members have won, they were fought for, not given, and we will step up again to defend them no matter what!
