Well John Howards workplace legislation is starting to show it's ugly head! Yep he wants you to pay to go to work! And in the following article Safety Issues aren't even addressed as these new I.R Laws cut contractors payments to the bone (well employees but they are now contractors) so that safety planning is not even on the agenda, as they cannot afford to think of safety when they can't even feed the kids!
Telstra contractors 'suffering pay cuts'
September 19, 2006 01:14am
Article from: AAP
MORE than 100 Telstra contractors are refusing to repair and install phones in rural NSW because of pay cuts that make their jobs untenable, unions say.
The ACTU and NSW Communications Workers' Union said the telephone technicians were facing pay cuts of between 25 and 50 per cent of their contract pay rates.
The technicians were employed as sub-contractors for Downer Engineering but carried out the majority of their work on residential and business telephone lines for Telstra, the ACTU said.
“They say they cannot afford to accept most country work under the new contract rates and have been forced to halt rural repair work and in-place installations until their rates of pay are restored,” ACTU president Sharan Burrow said.
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