Last week, as George Calombaris saw his life’s work tumble thanks to payroll errors, Labor industrial relations spokesman Tony Burke wrote: “Wage thieves and their apologists have also sought to blame the complexity of the award system. The system has already been simplified over the past decade. There are 122 modern awards, down from 1500 when John Howard was in office”.
Burke seemed to suggest that awards are short documents, which are user-friendly and easy to interpret.
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