Do you remember "Work Choices" and the "AWA" ?
I do indeed! I guess your perspective depends on where on the dung heap you sit.
I first became an employer in the Fraser era when sacking someone was as easy as - "Hey you! Pack up your stuff and f*ck off right now!"
And I was an employer in the Hawk/Keating era when sacking some was as easy as - "Look, I have given you a hundred and forty thousand warnings - all carefully documented in this book. I have spent more than a hundred thousand dollars on counselling for you and had you retrained fifty times. Please, please, pleeeease tell me how much I need to pay you to pack your stuff and f*ck off? Anything, just name your price"!
Yay Work Choices and AWAs!
Dr 