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New Laws to protect Working
People
Workchoices consigned to the dustbin
of history.
New laws implemented by the Rudd
Government come into being as from the 1st July 2009.
For more information,
click
here
The ACTU has
initiated a new campaign to deliver the highest standards for harmonised OH & S
laws.
Find out more
here
Unions have supported
harmonisation, not for the same reasons as employers to reduce workers rights to
the worst OH&S Law in Australia, but in fact to use the harmonisation agenda to
increase the rights of all workers to the best OH&S law operating in Australia
as the basis of any national OH&S Model law.
Rights
on Site is the campaign to get rid of the Australian Building and
Construction Commission and make all Australian workers equal before the law.
900,000 construction
workers across Australia do not have the same rights in their workplace as all
other Australian workers.
If a worker is killed on site, his colleagues must be able to prove they
had a reasonable concern about an imminent risk to themselves to legally stop
work and assess the safety situation. Passersby can also be interrogated by the
ABCC for witnessing activities on a building site. The ABCC has the power to
seek fines against individual workers of up to $22,000 and gag interviewees.
Anyone who refuses to cooperate fully faces a potential 6 month jail term. More
than 92 construction workers have been secretly interrogated by the ABCC. Ahead
of the 2007 election, the Rudd Labor Government promised to keep the ABCC in
place until 2010.
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