Debden..sorry ..been busy..some of us dont work for Getup or the Labor party.
From a Leftie mag. With Work Choices on the nose, the government was forced to introduce a "fairness test" in May (similar to the "no disadvantage" test that Work Choices legislation initially scrapped), which forced employers to provide "fair" compensation in any individual or collective agreement where "protected conditions" were cut.
from wikipedia The "fairness test" was a concept of the Australian Act of Parliament, the Workplace Relations Amendment (A Stronger Safety Net) Act 2007.
It was given Royal Assent on 28 June 2007 and predominantly came into operation on 1 July 2007. The Act saw the re-naming of the then Office of Workplace Services, which became the Workplace Ombudsman, and the creation of the Workplace Authority, combining the former Office of the Employment Advocate and parts of the then Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, now the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
The most significant change of the Act was to introduce the Fairness Test, which operated retrospectively from 7 May 2007. The Fairness Test was introduced by the then Howard government as a “fine-tuning” of WorkChoices
So Howard introduced a "fairness" test similar to the no disadvantage test....lets not waste time on semantics.
End of story. BTW the mention of volunteers was simply to show that there are some in the community more concerned with the welfare of the community than pure unionists personal greed....and yes they do rescue commies, pinkos, greenies, basket weavers and chardonnay socilaists.
