The Fair Work system 2009 (Cth)

The Fair Work system 2009 (Cth)

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The Fair Work system 2009 (Cth)

Introduction

With increasing need of workers protection, union demands, workplace strikes and workers basic rights at workplace, more and more governments around the world are looking for the legislation which protect the workers right and address day to day issues of workers and employers at the workplace. The Australian government in this regard in year 2009 took an initiative which completely changed the workplace relations and conditions of people in Australia through the Law called Fair Work Act (Cooper, 2009, pp.274). The basic objective of Fair Work Act is to impart the new system at the workplace which is diverted towards balancing the needs of employees or workers, unions and employers of the organizations and companies. The Fair work system was in full motion from 1 January 2010; this was mainly due to the modern awards and new safety net of legislative national employment standards that were placed into the organizational requirements. The main purpose of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) was to maintain a balance that would allow Australia to become more prosperous and competitive without altering the workplace associated rights and minimum standards that are guaranteed. There were various cases in which workers were exposed to un-fair treatment from the owners of various industries. To address the violation of worker's rights and privileges “The Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth)” was introduced by the Australian workers union and communities, which would provide support to workers in their issues related to work (Sheldon, 2008, pp.235).

Discussion

Achievements of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth)

The changes and achievements that were observed by introducing The Fair Work Act 2009 are as follows:

The rights and privileges of the Australian workers were restored by this act;

The Act has helped the workers in protecting them from unfair termination or layoffs;

Individual contracts were banned and therefore no Australian workplace would by entertaining this contract here after;

Under the supervision of the National Employment Standards a strong safety net for Australian workers was established;

The rights of collective bargaining with inclusion of a requirement to have bargain in good faith was encouraged in the workplace;

An authentic independent umpire was introduced that would resolve the issues of the workers related to work neutrally;

In Australia the business groups have not stopped in lobbying to remove the rights of the workers at work and return to the old WorkChoices Act and even beyond that. The WorkChoice Act neglected the rights of the workers in the workplace so the employers or the owners of the firms or organizations enjoyed greater control over the workers (Cooper, 2009, pp.284). In 2009, most of the Australia's business groups were looking for the shortcuts or un-ethical acts that would help them in saving the cost of workers and gain larger control over them by enforcing rules and regulations that were not according to the industrial acts or labour acts. The main aims of the business groups were:

To exempt workers working in ...