Travel thickness,
not so.
Existing laws made it ILLEGAL for business to set up a secondary company [doing the same thing] alongside that of its parent offering lower wages and conditions THEN offering the parent company's employees two choices.
Move across for less or join the dole queue.
Howard's new anti employee laws make this perfectly legal providing it is done for "operational reasons".
These can be structural, economic, organizational and the like.
$5.60 USD or so an hour is the minimum wage in the USA.
Where do you think Howard is taking us...............?
We had ALL better get used to hearing the term, "the working poor" on this side of the Pacific.
After all.................it IS the brave new world that the Australian voter WANTS.
I believe the conservatives call it "work place flexibility".
Our backs become more "rubber like", as we are bent over before being shafted.