HIDDEN AWA FACTS REVEALED AT LAST
At last the facts on AWAs, hidden for so long by the Howard Government, have been revealed.
Labor's Julia Gillard, Federal Minister for Industrial Relations, this week revealed what the Howard Government had hidden for so long.
Remember all those promises stated by John Howard. No one would be worse off. People on AWAs were actually better off etc etc. But for years they refused to release the data.
Now here it is.
The Workplace Authority has provided the Government with data compiled and analysed from a sample of over 1700 Australian Workplace Agreements lodged between April and October 2006, data the previous Liberal government claimed didn’t exist.
The analysis of the 1748 AWAs shows that 89 per cent removed at least one so-called protected award condition:
89 per cent excluded one or more so-called protected award conditions
83 per cent excluded two or more so-called protected award conditions
78 per cent excluded three or more so-called protected award conditions
71 per cent excluded four or more so-called protected award conditions
61 per cent excluded five or more so-called protected award conditions
52 per cent excluded six or more so-called protected award conditions
40 per cent excluded seven or more so-called protected award conditions
30 per cent excluded eight or more so-called protected award conditions
16 per cent excluded nine or more so-called protected award conditions
8 per cent excluded ten or more so-called protected award conditions
2 per cent excluded all eleven so-called protected award conditions
The analysis also revealed the so-called protected award conditions that were most frequently removed:
70 per cent removed shift work loadings
68 per cent removed annual leave loadings
65 per cent removed penalty rates
63 per cent removed incentive based payments and bonuses
61 per cent removed days to be substituted for public holidays
56 per cent removed monetary allowances
50 per cent removed public holidays payment
49 per cent removed overtime loadings
31 per cent removed rest breaks
25 per cent removed declared public holidays
The limited data revealed that 75 per cent of the 1487 AWAs sampled did not provide for a guaranteed wage increase.
These are the statistics the former Liberal government didn’t want to tell the Australian people about. These are the individual statutory agreements that the Liberal Party brought to Australian working families.
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