When Parliament resumes at the foreshadowed May sitting, the Greens will move in the Senate to disallow the Government\u2019s regulation shortening the notice required to change enterprise agreements, said Greens Leader and Industrial Relations spokesperson, Adam Bandt.
\n\u201cThe government is using a temporary emergency to make long-term changes to workers\u2019 rights,\u201d said Mr Bandt.
\n\u201cI am worried about Liberal mission creep.
\n\u201cThe Australian people are prepared to give the government latitude to fight a health emergency, but this doesn\u2019t give them license to take away rights for the long-term.
\n\u201cWorkers will be put under extreme pressure to agree in a day to changes that could last for years.
\n\u201cThere is no evidence this change is needed, especially given the high degree of co-operation witnessed during this crisis.
\n\u201cPeople need a fair amount of time to seek advice about significant changes to their rights and the Greens will oppose this corporate power grab.
\n“Those of us who fought WorkChoices know the Liberals are no friend of workers. But to use the cover of a global pandemic to strip away workers’ rights is a gross new low.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When Parliament resumes at the foreshadowed May sitting, the Greens will move in the Senate to disallow the Government\u2019s regulation shortening the notice required to change enterprise agreements, said Greens Leader and Industrial Relations spokesperson, Adam Bandt. \u201cThe government is using a temporary emergency to make long-term changes to workers\u2019 rights,\u201d said Mr Bandt. \u201cI … Continue reading “Greens move to disallow Government's attack on bargaining rights”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}