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Hear us. Trust us. Reward us.
That’s the simple plea from white collar Australia in response to a simple question: How would you get your workplace working better?
Over at news.com.au we’ve been running what we somewhat exuberantly called the New Work Project survey. In the few weeks it’s been running, we’ve received 25,000 submissions from all corners of the country and in all walks of life.
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By now you may be aware of the offensively Draconian nanny state mandate handed down this week to the fine employees of BHP Billiton.
The memo entitled, Mine Kampf: BHP’s Office Environment Standard And Glorious Five Year Plan, outlines a thousand and one workplace bugbears that the BHP politburo have declared no longer negotiable, punishable presumably, by pain of performance review.
It’s a grossly heavy-handed document, undermining the worth of the employees who deserve respect not only for making BHP the success story it is, but also just for being humble and honourable members of the human race. And it would be an indefensibly deplorable document of foolscap fascism, if it were not for one tiny problem: as a rule, you people are f#$king disgusting.
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pikavippi says:
Exactly laqr,I think I¡Çm smarter than Obama too. and to prove it, I¡Çll put my college GPA and transcripts up against his any day. Read more »
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Lilly says:
Agreed! People who leave mobile phones on their desk then leave forcing the rest of us to hear their crap over and over should be sacked on the spot! Read more »
Each year the debate over the minimum wage seems to be dominated by people who’ll never have to live on it: economists, politicians, business lobbyists, and, I have to be honest, union
leaders.
We can all forget that a dollar means different things to different people. That for one of the 1.4 million Australians on a low wage an few extra dollars a week can be the money that keeps the lights on, pays the rent or buys new shoes for a fast-growing child.
Last week the ACTU lodged its minimum wage claim - $28 extra per week for a full time worker.It’s not a big ask when you think of the rise in electricity prices, fuel costs, rents and other expenses.
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The real workers says:
@ JT Thanks for your opinion, but we DID take responsibility. We had children young and decided at 27 to go back to uni. I studied media and my wife education. Your disdain for the artists of the world does you no favours as a person either. Never watched tv… Read more »
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ZSRenn says:
@ Get it rite Here is a story for you that says Interest Rates will rise it is only a matter of time as to when http://mozo.com.au/interest-rates/articles/it-s-a-case-of-when-not-if-interest-rates-rise-experts-say/800314491 Perhaps you might get it rite @ Ptom perhaps you might look at this link which gives CEO’s a $211,000 Average income. http://www.payscale.com/research/AU/Job=Chief_Executive_Officer_(CEO)/Salary… Read more »
When the judges sit down to decide who should be Australian of the Year, they should turn their attention to a quietly-spoken rigger from Adelaide who last week showed how one person’s courage can make a difference.
Scientists, doctors, actors, singers, economists, entrepreneurs, sporting heroes and even the odd shonky businessman have won Australian of the Year. And - every year - you can mount a serious case that the honour should have been handed to someone else. But then again that’s sort of the point.
Australian of the Year isn’t about a unanimous choice for most deserving human in the country. It’s about starting a national discussion about who we are and what we value in others. So this is why I would like to see the next award handed to a type of Australian who has never taken the honour. An ordinary Aussie worker. Ark Tribe.
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Ron Woods (ASU Workplace Delegate) says:
While the commonwealth should have abolished the ABCC, they needed support in the Senate, which was controlled by Howard’s cronies. The ABCC found many employers who had broken laws, but chose to ignore them and attack only the workers and their unions. There are adequate laws in place to deal… Read more »
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Dave Munro says:
It is quite incredible to read some of the false information that is flying from keyboards around the country. Read the facts people before you comment and do not be blinded by your dislike for unions. I am not a union member, I would not vote for the Labor party… Read more »
Increasing working hours are responsible for a significant drop in the health of Australian workers and no-one is feeling it worse than the white collar worker, an Australia Institute Study has revealed today.
But while the Public Health Association is pleading with Aussie workers to slow down and asking employers to be more accommodating when staff are sick, it’s time the rest of us took some personal responsibility for our own wellbeing.
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RobertGlenn19 says:
All people deserve good life time and loans or small business loan would make it much better. Because people’s freedom is based on money state. Read more »
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whatahooha says:
Maybe she has outsourced all that family stuff that takes up so much of one’s day. Folllowing her lead, I have outsourced my daily exercise regime. So far someone else has lost 4 kgs and 2cm off my hips! Read more »
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