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Hon Julia Gillard issues new Fair Work Bill

28 Nov '08
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Under Labor's system, Fair Work Australia will have streamlined hearing processes to deal with these matters quickly. Employees, if they are successful, will be able to be reinstated or receive compensation of up to six months' pay. This is a stark contrast to the Work Choices system, where if you worked in a business of less than a 100, you could be dismissed on any day for no reason at all and have no remedy.

This legislation provides for people to be represented if they choose to be at work and also provides new protections for people in their workplace. Whether or not an employee wants to be a member of a union, wants to engage in collective bargaining, wants to engage in the responsibility of representing others in their workplace, is entirely a decision for them. Whatever decision they make, this legislation ensures they cannot be discriminated against for making that decision.

This legislation also creates a brand new industrial umpire, Fair Work Australia. It brings together what is now a plethora of government agencies, an alphabet soup that working people and employers are supposed to be able to work through if they need help. Well we know that that's not working. We want working people and employers who need assistance to know that there's one place for them to ring, Fair Work Australia, and it will be Fair Work Australia's job to work out who they need to speak to within the organisation.

Fair Work Australia will have a connection with the Fair Work Court, which will have a low-cost informal dispute resolution section able to offer people the benefit of quick remedies where they need not be legally represented, or engaged in the filling of mountains of paper work in order to deal with any matter which may have gone wrong in their workplace. For example, being underpaid under the relevant award.

This is a new era of industrial relations that we believe gets the balance right. But what's more important is the Australian people have endorsed this new system. The Liberal Party brought to this country Work Choices; industrial relations extremism without mandate. They forced it on the Australian people and the Australian people, when they had an opportunity to vote, said no. Work Choices doesn't represent Australian values. It doesn't represent what we believe this country should offer working Australians.

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