you need to listen to what he said...He will not got outside the current IR legislation...stop peddling lies. The Door is not "wide open" as you said
This is what Tony Abbott said this morning:
Statement on Workplace Relations 17/07/10
An incoming Coalition government will not seek to change the Fair Work Act for the three years of the next term of parliament.
The Coalition will carefully monitor how the Fair Work legislation operates over the next three years, in consultation with workplace organisations and with the public.
If any changes are needed, we will seek a mandate for them at the 2013 election.
In the meantime, the Coalition will work within the existing legislation and with the independent umpire, Fair Work Australia, to ensure that the current Act delivers the best possible outcomes.
The Coalition will also retain Fair Work Australia and the Fair Work Ombudsman. We will keep the Australian Building and Construction Commission (which the former Government established) under its existing legislation because it is a strong cop on the beat and has helped to end years of lawlessness on commercial construction sites.
I have well and truly absorbed the lessons of the Coalitions 2007 defeat as well as the different lessons of the current Governments failures. I believe in workplace freedom but not at the expense of fairness. Labors Fair Work Act is far from perfect but it deserves a fair go.
After the Keating Governments 1993 enterprise bargaining reforms and the Howard Governments 1996 and 2005 changes, the Fair Work Act is the fourth big change to work place law in just 15 years. The new legislation should be judged by how it operates in practice rather than by how it conforms to expectations.
Workers and businesses will soon enough know what works and what doesnt with Labors legislation which is only now starting to come into full operation.
Its only after possible improvements have been fully considered by the people affected and by the electorate at large at a subsequent election that the Coalition would consider making any changes.
An incoming Coalition government will have quite enough reform to be getting on with: tackling Labors debt and deficit; introducing a real paid parental leave scheme; introducing an element of people power into the running of schools and hospitals; improving the environment and establishing a Green Army; and re-examining the Henry proposals for personal tax cuts and welfare reform.
