Originally Posted by Flexable
Don't blame the government for what you are trying to do...
Blame the government for what we are trying to do? What we are trying to do is to bring you from the 1950's into the 21st Century. Evidently we are attempting to do that in the face of your unwillingness to consider the adverse consequences to you of your own resistence to change to meet the reality of the law, including your unwillingess to adapt your own contract to minimize the most obvious adverse consequences of that law.
Your assumption about delayed career advancement is not only unreasonably speculative in its numbers, but it ignores the fact that the law of Parliament supersedes the law of the collective agreement. One cannot contract out of human rights legislation, and sooner or later, regardless of who the parties are assisting the change, the change will take place, with or without your concurrence. The only issue is how much of your own money and effort you will waste attempting to delay or stop the inevitable.