Okay...perhaps someone with a better grasp of IR law, and the appropriate EA, could explain what a sell-off of, for example, QF Engineering, would mean for all it's 'employees' benefits etc?
Would they have to pay redundancies or can they annex the 'business' and all it's minions, then in 6 months complain that 'QF Engineering Pty Ltd' are too expensive and pull the contract effectively shutting the place down and saving millions in redundancies....and then get 457's by the thousand with TA's blessing??
Extreme I know but not beyond the realms of the little fella's deviousness....