Sunday, March 26, 2006

HR Nicholls Society: IR laws "centralised power"

The HR Nicholls Society said, the myriad of complex new laws would also create a system where so-called IR professionals would stand to make a lot of money sorting through it,

The society was set up more than 20 years ago to argue for unfettered management of the workplace and as a counter-balance to union influence.

But society president Ray Evans does not like the centralised power being handed to the government under the changes, nor its encroachment on states' rights.

"It's rather like going back to the old Soviet system of command and control, where every economic decision has to go back to some central authority and get ticked off," he told ABC TV.

"There is a lot of that sort of attitude in this legislation and I think it is very unfortunate."

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