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Written by Jim Stewart
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Tuesday, 16 August 2005 |
Unfair Dismissal LawsI am absolutely amazed that if you Google the phrase unfair dismissal laws the ACTU does not come up on the first page of results. For non Aussie visitors there is a massive debate in Australia at the moment on proposed new industrial relations laws that will see businesses with less that 100 employees become exempt from our unfair dismissal laws. Regardless of what side of the debate you are on I am stunned that neither side has tried to capture this search phrase on the net.
Personally I did not vote for either major political part at our last federal election but quite frankly I think it is pretty stupid to say that the unfair dismissal laws are hurting small business. Just ask my mate Cam, we've both lost count of how many times I've hired and fired him!. Basically the way it stands with an employer at the moment is if you want to sack someone you must give them two written warnings and then the third time get rid of them. But most businesses I know will get around this anyway by simply making the position redundant.
There has been a massive swing in the polls against John Howard (that's the guy that looks like Mr Garrison from South Park) because of these proposed changes. As far as I am concerned he went to the federal election with these changes on the table and the Australian people voted him in, so there is no point in whinging now. He told you he was going to do it!
What little I have heard about the proposed changes to the industrial relations laws I find quite disturbing, however maybe this will teach the Australian electorate that they need to find out more about what they are voting for rather than just what they hear on the 6 o'clock commercial TV news.
In the meantime it will be interesting if this article gets picked up by the search engines ;-)
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Last Updated ( Monday, 19 September 2005 )
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