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.

After two weeks of Senate Estimates asking questions of Officials from Julia Gillard’s Department, Fair Work Australia and the Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman on behalf of workers and small business owners who are struggling to understand Labor’s confusing and complex new legislation, it’s apparent that Julia Gillard’s own departments don’t understand it either.

If they don’t understand it, how on earth does that make things simpler for small business owners and workers?

Case in point: A baker in my home State of Tasmania who, despite months of phone calls and countless emails, is still unable to get an answer as to how much he should pay his employees under the new modern award system or for that matter what award his employees even fall under.

Julia Gillard promised a fairer and simpler system and she promised an expensive taxpayer funded education campaign would make things simpler for everyone to understand.

Just like Labor’s infamous ‘noodle nation’, launched before the 2001 election, to understand Julia Gillard’s version of simpler you need go no further than Fair Work Australia’s ‘so called’ simple graph outlining the Transition of Federal and State minimum wage instruments to the National FWA system.

http://www.fwa.gov.au/sites/wagereview2010/downloads/transinstr.doc

The only thing simple about this is the simple fact that Labor’s bureaucratic nightmare for small business has simply got worse!

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