Howard's IR: still rotten to the core

Last week John Howard crumbled under the pressure of our two year campaign against his IR laws and conceded that they were hurting working families.

Faced with unrelenting evidence and public pressure, Mr Howard admitted that the IR laws have led to an alarming loss of penalty rates, overtime pay, public holiday loadings and other formerly protected award conditions.

Of course, that means every time he told us, in his ad campaign and in person, that penalty rates, overtime and public holidays were protected, he was lying. As taxpayers, we can’t help but wonder, does this mean John Howard will give us our 55 million dollars back?

Sadly, the proposals John Howard offers tinker only around the edges of the IR laws.

READ THE FACTSHEET ON JOHN HOWARD'S NEW CHANGES TO THE IR LAWS HERE.