Workplace Agreements

Ok this is something that erks the CRAP out of my...If you are indeed on a work place agreement, you should NEVER be disadvantaged in anyway. It should be posted off to be registered with the government, once it has been accepted you should get a copy of your workplace agreement back along with a letter saying that it has been registered...Also it'll have a registration number on it. If not your employer is going against the law and breaking it.

A few members of my family have been caught out with this (my cousins)...

My parents run a business, Mum and my sister keep up to date with all the work place rule changes etc...Anyhows...this is technically how it should work.

1. You get the work place agreement, you are given a week to go over it. You CAN negotiate and ask questions about anything that you do not understand or agree with.
2. Once you have signed it and given it back to your employer they will post it off to the government department that handles the workplace agreements.
3. They will send a letter to the employer to give to you to say that yes it has been registered, the government also hold the right over the employer to question anything in that workplace agreement that looks to disadvantage the employee.
4. By law the employer should then give you a copy of that letter, or the letter itself with a copy of the work place agreement.

There are a lot of business out there that will rip people off and will bully their employees, normally young people who wouldn't know any different. There are a lot of places that will write up their own workplace agreements (which AREN'T official ones) and make you think you have done...and that you are on the AWARD...All workplace stipulations are supposed to be written along side the work place agreement and as I said before NOT to disadvantage the employee.

There have been so many debates and crap on this and how people either disagree or agree with it...*shakes head* No matter what people say John Howard has done a DAMN good job, even though he has made a few mistakes...He is HUMAN after all, we are all allowed to make mistakes...Heck everyone has probably made some pretty HUGE mistakes in their lives, Mr Howard is no different. He like any of us is just your average Joe...