National Day Of Protest Nov 15

Culprit · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Port Melbourne

Anyway I will be taking the day off without pay and attend next week.

Northern Pie · We are watching! Joined: 27 May 2001 Location: Queensland

Ahhhh the comrades all getting together for one last hurragh before the Government finally puts an end to the socialistic bully boys that pretend to care for the honest worker....yup Unions "Two Feet Good, Four Feet Bad" Can't wait for the communists to be put back in their rightful place...oblivion!!

Cheers

Culprit · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Port Melbourne

lol, it's like being back in the 70's with that commo speak.

Joel · Joined: 23 Mar 1999 Location: Mornington Peninsula

Culprit · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Port Melbourne

Joel I have worked to long and know employers want proof your sick. Your word is not good enough.

Nutmeg · Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Preston

Culprit · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Port Melbourne

Free education wasn't it. Razz

Proud Pies · Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Location: Knox-ish

Culprit · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Port Melbourne

If your a shift worker, you can forget penalty rates as they are the first thing the Liberals want abolished.

zoia · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:15 pm

there u go dan u can forget ya time n a half from slaveway

HAL · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:19 pm

"There you go again. "--Reagan

pies4ever · Joined: 11 Feb 2002 Location: rosebud,vic,australia

Sick leave is safe: PM
10nov05

PRIME Minister John Howard has rejected claims that workers will have to provide a medical certificate for every sick day under his industrial relations changes.

Page 117 of the WorkChoices Bill states, however, that employees must provide a medical certificate for every day off to be eligible for sick leave.
Draft laws establishing the new regime passed the House of Representatives this morning and Mr Howard said he was optimistic the Senate would also approve the 687-page bill next month.

ACTU secretary Greg Combet said the requirement for a medical certificate for every sick day would lead to extra pressure and cost for workers.

But Mr Howard said bosses could already demand medical certificates.

"Employers can ask for it now if they want to and I know employers who do. Not many, not many," Mr Howard said on Sky News.

But Mr Howard said bosses can already demand medical certificates. "Employers can ask for it now if they want to and I know employers who do. Not many, not many," Mr Howard said on Sky News.

"Of course you don't (always go to the doctor when you take one day off) and there's nothing in this provision that is going to alter the current situation."

He said the new laws allowed an employer to ask for a certificate, which should be provided as soon as possible ? either before, during or after the period of illness.

"If there are circumstances beyond the control of the employee that make it impossible for him to provide it, well he doesn't have to," he said.

"That is effectively the current situation yet out of all of that ... this nonsense is being put around, this distortion by the Labor Party that you've got to get a certificate every day."

Mr Howard said the Labor Party was bouncing from issue to issue with a fear campaign against the changes.

"They go from one issue one day and when it gets answered they go to another one," he said.

"Well we're patient people. We'll deal issue-by-issue, day-by-day, and in a year's time when people discover ... that the world does not come to an end and that people are not being disadvantaged, they will look back on this period of distortion and say the Labor Party did not serve the public interest."

He defended the Government's decision to guillotine debate on the laws, saying it had already been the longest parliamentary debate of his term in office.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,17201328%255E661,00.html

Proud Pies · Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Location: Knox-ish

and of course i believe everything that little Johnnie Howard says..........after all, weren't there children overboard?

Northern Pie · We are watching! Joined: 27 May 2001 Location: Queensland

yeah lets believe Beazley and his ACTU backpocket cronies....after all wasn't life so much grander with 17.5% interest rates, inflation and unemployment rates through the roof under a socialistic Labor order...Comrade???

Cheers

Culprit · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Port Melbourne

Barnaby Joyce was spot on. He would not ask his employees for a certificate as it means he is questioning his employees honesty.

To add to Northern Pies 17.5% rates he fails to add your mortgage was never over 22.5% of your income. Interest Rates are great at the moment, trouble is they are set at over 32% of your income. To add to the Liberals push it was the Labour Party that pushed rates up. Lest wait and see what the Liberals will say what's global conditions put pressure on ours to come up. Our rates just like our fuel prices respond to overseas markets as well.

The socialist part of the labour party has not existed for over 15 years despite many calling themselves left wing. If they were any further right they would be Liberal members. The NSW right wing controls the Labour Party and I would call them more conservative than the Liberals.

Norethern Pie your out of touch with what Labour stands for these days. The reason we have Howard is we had Hawke & Keating.