`The Federal government`s WorkChoices legislation is neither simple nor fair` Discuss

p YVE15 Australia 's Workchoices

Yve L Yvonne Marie Leyson

Professor Doe

AU Employment Law

28 November 2006 In a journey towards the economic stability and prosperity of a community , social awareness gives us an idea that people need to interact with others in to grow . The dream is only imaginary if one refuses to acknowledge any recognition of equal opportunity of the people who partake in the economic struggle with their own bare hands the employees . It is an employee 's performance in the workplace that

gets the job done and ensures productivity . Australian Prime Minister John Howard has called for a conscious change in the workplace relations with laws passed . Vigorous governmental action and national cooperation is expected for the achievement of a common purpose in implementing effective reforms that thereby promote a higher level of growth and performance . Better employment laws shall work to provide legitimate guidelines for the allowance of a healthy working atmosphere for both employer and worker . Other major economic competitors have incorporated these inclusions into their prevailing national laws to adapt with the current flexible trends in the employment system . Legislators and capitalists are enjoined to work hand in hand to promote a better future for its workforce thereby allowing a broader expansion of Australia 's economic goals In 2005 , the Howard Government and the Australian Parliament launched the Workplace Relations Amendment Bill 2005 Workchoices ' guide that announced series of amendments to the Australian Labor Law . Last March 2006 , the Workplace Relations Act 1996 took effect despite heavy protests from the labor sector and equally heavy expenditures for the law to take full impact . The Australian Labor Party and the Australian Council of Trade unions had originally described the amendment as sugar-coating a poison pill ' and a representation of the old package . The Howard Government countered that reforms were necessary as step in the deregulation of the Australian economy . Andrews in Senate Hansard (2005 ,p .28 ) reasoned that the 1 .7 million extra jobs created in Australia and the 14 increases in real wages were part of the reason part of the reason for that is because of the reforms that were made in 1996 . Australia . Commonwealth of Australia , Senate Hansard , April 30 ,2005 ,p .28 . Accountably , the government claims that such reforms made a substantial impact on the present economic status and that Workchoices ' will have more choice and flexibility and this in turn will lead to a higher productivity (Senate Hansard ,

.28 . Ibid ,

.29 Laws and Provisions under Workchoices

The creation of several minimum workplace system conditions in Australia has been equated by the government and the business sector in the effort to maintain the economic stability . Under the new unfair dismissal practices , companies with fewer than 100 employees are exempted from unfair dismissal . At the same time employees of larger corporations will not be protected if they are dismissed for `operational reasons ' that previously allowed them to claim compensation or reinstatement . This was done to alleviate the stifling...