15 Facts About WorkChoices

WorkChoices was the name given to changes made to the federal industrial relations laws in Australia by the Howard Government in 2005, being amendments to the Workplace Relations Act 1996 by the Workplace Relations Amendment Act 2005, sometimes referred to as the Workplace Relations Amendment Act 2005, that came into effect on 27 March 2006.

WorkChoices was a major issue in the 2007 federal election, with the Australian Labor Party led by Kevin Rudd vowing to abolish it.

WorkChoices made a number of significant changes to the Workplace Relations Act 1996, including:.

The general principles established by this case and similar cases since the introduction of WorkChoices were that the types of activities carried out by an individual organisation and the extent and value of these activities must be assessed on a case-by-case basis to determine whether the activities are considered substantially "trading and financial".

WorkChoices contained provisions relating to both unfair dismissal and unlawful termination, which are separate matters.

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The changes to dismissal laws was part of WorkChoices which reduced the protections of previous unfair dismissal laws, which were introduced at a federal level by the Labor Government of Paul Keating in 1993.

WorkChoices introduced several restrictions on who was able to lodge an unfair dismissal claim with the AIRC.

WorkChoices was terminated and Priceline subsequently hired a new employee in the same position on a package of $65,000–$75,000.

Unions and other groups opposed to WorkChoices claimed that Billy was a perfect example of why the new laws were unfair and would lead to bosses exploiting their workers.

The committee did not individually acknowledge and publish all submissions, due to the large number of submissions, at least partially resulting from the ACTU campaign against WorkChoices, which included setting up a form on its website by which people could make a submission.

WorkChoices was a prominent issue in the defeat of the centre-right Howard Liberal government at the 2007 federal election.

Australian Government stopped using the name "WorkChoices" to describe its industrial relations changes on 17 May 2007.

Restrictive right of entry rules in to workplaces for unions introduced under WorkChoices were to remain and secret ballots to decide on carrying out strikes were to continue, which would become banned except during periods of collective bargaining.

WorkChoices declared that WorkChoices was "dead" and would never be resurrected as part of Coalition policy, and called on Rudd to move quickly to introduce draft industrial relations legislation.

In March 2008 Federal Industrial Relations Minister Julia Gillard revealed that the previous government had spent $121 million on what she described as WorkChoices propaganda including promotional material such as 98,000 mousepads, 77,000 pens and 100,000 plastic folders.