Senator Eric Abetz

With less than two weeks to go in Labor’s ‘countdown to chaos’, with the implementation on July 1 of Julia Gillard’s new industrial laws, workers and employees are still none the wiser about how to interpret Labor’s new workplace rules.

Just like Labor’s litany of broken promises, the BER building rorts, their failed border protection policy, the disastrous and tragic home insulation debacle, back flips, belly flops and back downs on the ETS, Fuel Watch and Grocery Choice, Ms Gillard and Labor have once again failed to deliver what was promised.

Labor’s so-called Fair Work laws are in disarray after it was revealed today that an identical enterprise agreement, accidentally lodged twice, was approved by one Commissioner, but rejected by another.

Senator Eric Abetz said “This bungle makes a mockery of Labor’s laws which were sold to Australian workplaces as being simpler, less bureaucratic and without legal complexity.”

Prime Minister  Kevin Rudd’s shallow and vacuous attacks on the Senate over the last two days are nothing more than a desperate attempt to distract from his massive failings on the mining tax, border protection, insulation and BER, to name but a few, the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Senator Eric Abetz, said today.

“Yesterday Mr Rudd staged a baby-kissing event to call on the Senate to “get out of the way” on paid parental leave – despite the fact he knew full well that it will be passed by the end of today”, Senator Abetz said.

It seems to be payback time for the CFMEU for the tens of thousands of dollars donated by them to the Greens.

The Greens are now throwing their support behind the CFMEU’s campaign to abolish the Australian Building and Construction Commission.