[Muanet] 7.30 Report - 03/07/2006: Coal worker must pay $200 for a sickie in individual contract]

[Chris Latham]

Broadcast: 03/07/2006

Union seizes on coal worker contract

Reporter: Matt Peacock

KERRY O'BRIEN, PRESENTER: Tonight - another challenge to the
Government's controversial WorkChoice laws. The case of a young soccer
international trying to kick-start a career in the coal industry, who
found herself out in the cold because she wouldn't sign an individual
contract that allowed her boss to fine her $200 if she took a day off
sick without at least 12 hours' prior warning. Prime Minister John
Howard recently labelled opposition to his AWAs as a "dagger at the
throat" of the country's resource sector. But the relevant union says
it's collective deals that have driven productivity on Australia's
coalfields and they've seized on the case of young Lorissa Stevens to
drive home their point. Matt Peacock reports.

 
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2006/s1677788.htm
<http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2006/s1677788.htm>

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT

LOCATION: http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2006/s1677788.htm
<http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2006/s1677788.htm>


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