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Originally posted by markee
The fairness test was not part of the original legislation that was enforced. It only came around because the election was closing in and Howards polls were looking terrible. Therefore the fairness test counts for nothing when you are doing pro and cons.
The fairness test came in a year after the original legislation passed to prevent the minority of employers abusing their employees under the new legislation.
I can see no logical reason why it shouldn't be included when doing pros and cons as it IS the current legislation provided by the Howard government - to exclude changes is like the competition of Msgplus! saying.. no we are not going to compare our version to the bug fixed version of Msgplus - we are going to compare it to the original version which has bugs...
With such big reforms theres bound to be problems found and i think its a positive thing that the Howard government saw these problems and attempted to fix them with the fairness test - which i think he did. So yes, the fairness test is part of the law and if you blindly want to "forget" it exists by all means be deluded
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