Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Individual contracts come off second best

The majority of workers on individual contracts being pushed by the Federal Government in its workplace reforms are worse off than those on collective agreements, a Bureau of Statistics report has shown.

Those dependent on awards earned an average $16.70 an hour. The report found women were more likely to fall into this category and that the gap between men's and women's earnings had widened in the past decade.

The bureau's social trends report, released yesterday, showed non-managerial adult employees on collective agreements earned an average $24.10 an hour, compared with $23.30 for those on individual contracts.

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