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Rudd’s Labor Brings Back Work Rights

It seems that the Government in Australia are starting to finally act like their namesake, despite a worrying pitch to the right which even had staunch Howard supporters nodding their head in approval.

The Labor-lead government have started to undo the damage caused by the Liberal Party by firstly throwing out the shocking “WorkChoices” package and bringing in a set of Employment Standards to restore the rights of workers in Australia to the howls from the opposition party telling us they “might increase the cost of employing people”. Yeah, I’m pretty sure that was the point.

Some standards include a 38-hour work week, lots of changes to both paid and unpaid leave, redundancy and changes to termination laws as well.

Update: Looks like The Standard got here first. With the same links. Damnit. But they do have a link to the actual legislation so peruse at your leisure.