AWAs: the facts revealed

The Government's own Office of the Employment Advocate has admitted that

• every new AWA individual contract it has registered since the Government's new IR laws came into affect have removed at least one award condition

and that

• 64% of AWAs have removed workers' right to leave loading
• 63% cut penalty rates and overtime; 52% cut shift loadings
• 40% stripped away public holidays
• 16% removed ALL protected award conditions