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GeneralWomenWomen lose under IR changes
Changes to the Govt's funding contract offered to the Queensland Working Women's Service for 2006-07 include requirements to promote the new WorkChoices IR laws, conduct seminars for employers and a ban on promoting union activities on its website. "Many working women have already been unfairly sacked under the new IR laws or have suffered cuts to their pay and conditions. On a full time basis Australian women earn around $150 a week less than men. This pay gap can only get worse under IR laws that are clearly designed to reduce wages and conditions and will hit vulnerable workers first. Now women could lose access to free assistance and representation from these independent services when they have been sexually harassed, unfairly dismissed, or discriminated against. It is every women's right to be represented by a union. This is a fundamental human right that is recognized internationally. The Government should not be making it a condition of its funding contract to ban information about union activities. The Federal Government has made Australian women easier to sack and easier to be paid less and now is stripping funds from the independent services which help them," said Ms Burrow.
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