New AWA's to be abolished

18 December 2007

Employers trying to sign staff up on new AWA agreements have been urged by Workplace Relations Minister Ms Julia Gillard not to draft new Australian Workplace Agreements (AWA) because they will be abolished.

Ms Gillard said of the AWA agreements, "They are the Liberal party's laws, and the Liberal party's laws are in operation today,"

"I can't change the Liberal party's laws until parliament can be brought together and the bill dealt with by both the Senate and the House of Representatives."

The Howard Government's AWA fairness test will be replaced with a new no-disadvantage test in February when Parliament resumes.


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