Unions on Employment bill
(posted 01/05/2006)
The Probationary Employment Bill:
that would give employers the right to dismiss a worker without risking a personal grievance during the first 90-days of service has drawn a strong reaction from the Engineering, Printing
and Manufacturing Union (EPMU).
National secretary Andrew Little calls the Bill “a naked attack on workers’ employment rights” and promises industrial action if it is not withdrawn.
The union puts the sponsor of the Bill, National Party industrial relations spokesperson Wayne Mapp, on 90 days’ notice. “If in 90 days he hasn’t scrapped his bill to let employers sack new employees for any reason, we will launch a massive public campaign against it.” Little says public protest will start with a mass stopwork meeting and march on Parliament on 20 July.
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