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GeneralAustralian Workplace AgreementsChildren under 15 on contractsAustralian children as young as 14 years old are signing AWA individual contracts under the Coalition Government's IR laws.
"These are very disturbing figures. They are official figures that were supplied to the Senate Estimates Committee by the Office of the Employment Advocate - the Government agency with which all new AWA individual contracts are registered. The figures show thousands of young Australians are now signing individual contracts that are no longer subject to a 'no disadvantage test'. Under the new IR laws AWA individual contracts can legally remove award protections like rest breaks, meal breaks, public holiday, weekend and overtime pay without any compensation for workers. The Government's workplace agency (OEA) has admitted that 40% of AWA individual contracts registered under the new laws get rid of rest breaks and 63% of AWAs scrap penalty rates and annual leave loading and half get rid of shift allowances, overtime loadings, skills payments and public holiday pay. These are terrible statistics that show a generation of Australians are growing up with fewer rights as a result of the Coalition Government's IR laws. I am sure that parents would be as shocked by this news as I am," said Ms Burrow. AWAS APPROVED FOR YOUNG WORKERS - JULY 2005 - MAY 2006 AWAs Approved <15 yrs: 598 AWAs Approved 15-18yrs: 7,779 AWAs Approved 18-21 yrs: 13,269 Total: 21,646 Source: OEA data supplied to Senate Estimates Committee Qn no. W206-07
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