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...nation's advertising sales folk. "Today, as never before," said Howard, "Australia is a workers' market." The new system is designed to let the market set the price of labor. Pay and conditions will be negotiated between workers and their employers; a new Fair Pay Commission will set minimum wages. A lot of cumbersome and outdated administration will be junked, and unfair-dismissal laws will be made more sensible. The economic argument is that reform will reduce the cost of labor and help the nation become more productive. Jobs will be created and incomes will rise as business...
...with their employers, don't completely trust them; they may feel vulnerable negotiating one on one with a clever boss or a manager who's the servant of a powerful corporation. Whether or not they belong to a union, workers have traditionally had the protection of award minimum wages that keep pace with national prosperity. So the support for the current system comes from a deep sense of fairness towards the industrially weak, low-paid young people and those who have rotten luck at work...
...tough they expect to be propped up by institutional benevolence. Of course, there's a powerful argument for sticking with an adaptable system that has served Australia so well - and that has evolved a long way since Justice Higgins' 1907 Harvester judgment on the basic needs, and appropriate minimum wage, of an unskilled male laborer. Nor does the case for radical change seem irresistible when Australia's recent history is compared with that of deregulated New Zealand and the U.S. Why would Australians opt for the low wages of the Kiwis and America's social dislocation and inequality when their...
...completions on Harvard’s final drive of the game. Facing second-and-19 on its own 43 after a personal foul, up by four with a good seven minutes remaining in the second half, the Crimson needed to pad its lead with a field goal at minimum. In an earlier game, O’Hagan would have found a burgundy shirt. Instead, he found Murt across the middle for 12 yards and Breaux leaping above his defender for a 19-yard completion to give Harvard a first down on the Lafayette 26 and an eventual field goal...
...example, I might oppose the campaign because I am disinclined to spend a few extra dollars on a needy Harvard janitor.) After all, according to the living-wage proponents, it is the very intrinsic human worth of the lowest-paid workers that fundamentally entitles them to such a minimum level of wages. But herein lies the dilemma. At the start of a living-wage campaign, all of its proponents agree that the monetary worth of Harvard’s poorest workers is entirely unrelated to their fundamental human worth. However, by using the human worth of these individuals...