pommie bastard

None I just cannot understand how it can get worse this has to be bull , as Union member I say a national strike is the way to go but would my employer miss me?




Longer hours, harder work, and less pay: that's how future is shaping up for Australian workers, according to a trade union-backed report released today.

The report says Australian workers are working longer hours, doing more unpaid overtime and are increasingly employed as casual workers. It also found most jobs created in the 1990s were low-paid.

The report says many Australian workers are also working harder, with many doing unpaid overtime regularly. It states 1.8 million Australians work more than 48 hours a week.

It found Australia has the highest rate - in OECD countries - of workers staying at work for 50 hours or more a week, with 60 per cent of overtime done in Australia unpaid. It found 37 per cent of permanent employees working over 41 hours a week were "explicitly paid" for extra hours worked.But only seven per cent work 9 to 5, while less than half stuck to a Monday-Friday working week.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/...220687686.html