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25.01.2022 Our Executive Director, Emilie Dye, appeared in the Orange County Register in California this week sharing her own experiences as a gig economy worker. California has done what many are discussing in Australia and 'cancelled' Uber. Uber now must treat their Californian drivers like employees, giving them minimum wage and sick leave. But gig workers didn't ask for this. Let's not make the same mistake here in Australia. ... https://www.pe.com//dont-let-california-politicians-cance/

25.01.2022 What is worse than a socialist union? A socialist union made up of social media influencers. These prima donnas don't need to unionise, they need to stop signing contracts they don't like. Businesses aren't trying to take advantage, they are trying to get a good deal. While these girls might be used to people giving them everything they want, that isn't how the business world works. https://www.theguardian.com//influencers-are-being-taken-a

24.01.2022 Here's an idea: let people negotiate their own pay. If it isn't enough, they have only themselves to blame. Under the current industrial relations system, workers don't know what they are owed, and employers don't know what they are supposed to pay. The government has involved itself in contracts between employee and employer to the extent that it costs many their jobs and businesses. Australia doesn't need books worth of complex regulation. People should be able to sit down... at the negotiating table a reach a number both parties are happy with, and that should be enough. https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au//6810547b883df78bdf3fcf0

23.01.2022 Unions don't like superannuation because they care about workers having enough to support themselves in retirement. Unions fight to expand compulsory super because of the millions they illegally siphon off of your savings. Union bosses have been known to stay on super boards for more than double the 12-year limit. Corrupt unions use your super funds to fight to expand compulsory super, so they can use even more of your money to fight for causes you don't support. You deserve... the right to use your hard-earned money as you choose. Let's end compulsory super and starve unions. https://www.spectator.com.au//busting-the-super-fund-spen/ See more

22.01.2022 If you haven't yet, consider signing up to become a member of the H.R. Nicholls Society. HRN is one of Australia's more prestigious institutes, demanding respect in the media, with politicians, and across industries. We are pushing back against vocal, thuggish unions. The more people that join us, the louder our voice in the struggle for real industrial relations reform. You are the backbone of this organisation. Thank you for all your support! https://www.hrnicholls.com.au/membership

22.01.2022 While workers in the private sector face pay cuts and layoffs, unions are whining because public sector employees are only getting a .3 per cent pay rise. Unions couldn't be more tone-deaf to the needs of workers. The national debt is piling up, and thousands have lost their jobs. Australia needs tax cuts for both individuals and businesses to get people back to work. We don't need socialist unions coercing the government into spending more on people who don't need the money. Slashing pay rises is an excellent move for NSW. They should be zero, but it is a step in the right direction. https://www.smh.com.au//nsw-public-sector-wage-increases-t

21.01.2022 Now is not the time for a strike. But unions have decided wharf workers should get a 6 per cent pay rise, even though the Australian economy is suffering through a recession. Many Australians are out of work, and as a result of union greed, they may not be able to get the goods they need to survive in these tough times. "The MUA's action is also a slap in the face to the million Australians currently out of work who must be amazed by the apparent indifference of the union's leadership to their plight." https://www.afr.com//shipping-lines-cut-deliveries-amid-wh

21.01.2022 This evening our Executive Director, Emilie Dye, will be speaking over zoom to the Asia-Pacific Students for Liberty on "Facing the Media as a Liberty Advocate." Join her tonight at 5:00 PM AEST. See you there!

20.01.2022 Underpayment happens when workers don't know what they are owed, and businesses don't know what they are legally required to pay. The solution is simple: get rid of the middle man. Australian adults are perfectly capable of negotiating their own salaries and contracts. The overly complicated industrial relations have cost many their job. Not they are costing taxpayers, who must pay for this computer program to simplify the payroll requirements for businesses. Real simplifi...cation requires getting rid of unnecessary regulations, not just organising them better. https://www.theguardian.com//wage-underpayment-inquiry-urg See more

18.01.2022 Our Executive Director, Emilie Dye, will be speaking at Macquarie University next Monday on Women in Policymaking.

16.01.2022 Read the full media release here: https://www.hrnicholls.com.au//release-ata-and-hrn-fight-f

16.01.2022 Professor Max Corbin is one of the world's foremost economists. He fled Nazi Germany, moving to Melbourne. After educating himself at the London School of Economics, he returned to Australia and spent 42 years researching, writing, and contributing to economic thought. He has written nine books, taught in tenured positions at the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University, Oxford University, and Johns Hopkins University, worked at the Internation Monetary Fund, and so much more. You would be hard-pressed to find anyone more equipped to speak on Australia's labour market. If Australia's policymakers genuinely want to lift the economy back onto its feet, they need to dissect our rigid IR system. No one should have to hire a lawyer to figure out what they can legally pay their workers.

15.01.2022 The unions like to sound off about how much they care about workers. In reality, they are just a front for the Labor government and socialist policies. This week they have come out in favour of Victoria's extended lockdowns. Even the United Workers Union, which claims to represent hospitality workers, came out in support of the lockdown. Maybe they should try talking to someone who works (or worked) in hospitality. These people are losing their livelihoods as a result of Vic...otria's draconian lockdowns. Unions do not represent workers. Workers want to see businesses re-open. They want their jobs back! https://www.afr.com//victorian-unions-back-roadmap-put-hea

14.01.2022 Compliance costs money. As a result of COVID-19, the government recognised that fact and has taken some of the strain off of businesses. Business can now reduce or change employees' hours, change employees' duties, or change where employees' work. This flexibility has allowed many companies to stay open during these trying times. Many of us work part-time, or from home as a result of the pandemic. Businesses should have the option to make these sorts of decisions in expansio...nary periods as well as recessions, when the economy is open and in lockdown. Employees, not the unions or the government, have the responsibility to negotiate their own work situation. These changes should become permanent. https://dynamicbusiness.com.au//ir-flexibility-should-the-

12.01.2022 The Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Union spends her days undermining private industry. She does not represent those working for private businesses, and those working for the public sector should not need union support. The only thing making Australia weak are excessive rules and regulations hog tying our businesses. Thank you for that, Sally McManus.

12.01.2022 Unions are taking up arms against...drum roll...workplace flexibility. The likes of Sally McManus do not want businesses to be able to change workers' roles or hours despite the current economic upheaval. A restaurant may ask their waitresses to deliver food instead of serving it, but Unions are saying, "no"! Right now more than ever, we need to maintain employer-employee relationships. And often that means offering giving businesses the flexibility they need to shift people...'s hours and roles. Businesses and workers are on the same side. Employees want to keep their jobs and employers want to keep their workers. Unions need to understand companies aren't trying to cheat their workers; they are just trying to get by. https://www.smh.com.au//unions-fire-warning-shot-over-gove

11.01.2022 Last week, the H.R. Nicholls Society, in partnership with the Australian Taxpayers' Alliance, sent out a media release on superannuation. Australians don't need the government to manage their money for them. Not only should we freeze the increase to compulsory superannuation, but we need to make it 100 per cent voluntary. And no one should be fined for accessing their own savings in a crisis. https://www.hrnicholls.com.au//release-ata-and-hrn-fight-f

09.01.2022 Millions of people work for the gig economy often making less than the prescribed minimum wage. For these workers, the wage they make is enough to get them in the driver's seat. If they didn't think it was worth their time, they would stop. Read the full article from our Executive Director, sharing her own story working for the gig economy: https://www.pe.com//dont-let-california-politicians-cance/

08.01.2022 The gender wage gap has very little to do with discrimination. In reality, the earning differences have everything to do with our rigid industrial relations system. For example, women are often willing to exchange pay for flexibility, but government restrictions stop them. Highly restrictive, government-mandated, wage requirements increase the gender wage gap. The emphasis on time worked over the value workers provide the company, means women fall behind. Women often have to... leave the workforce for a period to have children and so have less impressive tenures. The high minimum wage means many women must stay home because they cannot afford child care. https://www.smh.com.au//keeping-up-the-fight-for-equal-pay

08.01.2022 Even Anthony Albanese's platform isn't radical enough for unions. Socialist Left faction convener Dylan Wight wrote a letter complaining the draft platform didn't include climate change emissions targets. He spoke on behalf of various unions who claim to represent workers in their respective industries. Meanwhile, international unions are striking because Poland is moving away from coal, and workers are sure to lose their jobs in the transition. Australia's unions are nothin...g more than radical socialist political groups. They do not represent manufactures, electricians, butchers, firefighters, or workers in general, who no doubt have a diverse set of views on climate change. Unions have strayed far from their original justification for existence. They push their radical politics and do not advocate for policies that help workers. https://www.theaustralian.com.au//23b41c49a6a01dde2bee8c54 See more

06.01.2022 "While jobs recovery remains uncertain, extending workplace relations changes for another six months is good economic policy. Allowing employers the flexibility to direct an employee to work fewer hours, take leave or change duties is a useful strategy to assist struggling businesses and save jobs. Opposition IR spokesman Tony Burke’s criticism that Scott Morrison wants to make it easier for workers to lose their pay, hours and rights shows scant concern for current conditions facing businesses and their staff." https://www.theaustralian.com.au//dde21b0cc7228b6937908500

06.01.2022 SAMUEL GRIFFITH SOCIETY ONLINE Q&A DISCUSSION WITH PROF DAVID FLINT AM - 17 SEPTEMBER 2020 The Samuel Griffith Society is pleased to be hosting our fifth online... webinar via Zoom on Thursday 17 September 2020 from 5:30 PM AEST. We will be joined by Prof David Flint AM for a discussion of the recent release of the 'Palace Letters'. This event is free and you do not need a Zoom account to participate. To RSVP please email [email protected].

05.01.2022 Adam Bisits served as president of the H.R. Nicholls Society for many years. He was also outspoken about union abuses and corruption. Unions claim to advocate for the worker but in reality they profit by driving a wedge between employers and employees. Now more than ever we need to build up the relationship between businesses and their workers. To read more about the history of corruption with the unions check out this article from the Daily Telegraph: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au//341a45b825ad808c17d5bbf

04.01.2022 This morning our Executive Director, Emilie Dye, went on Triple M with The Spoonman alongside Finance Minister Mathias Cormann and Economist Saul Eslake to discuss the Federal budget.

04.01.2022 Union bullies have made it their mission to further disrupt industrial relations. They want to increase their own power in the workplace and impose "new rights and forms of equality". ~ Businesses are struggling to stay afloat and keep their workers in jobs, but Labor is calling for pay raises, ~ "full gender equality" -- meaning 26 weeks of paid parental leave, ... ~ the end of the Australian Building and Construction Commission to be replaced by more union bosses in the construction industry, ~ 10 days paid domestic violence leave, ~ a living wage for gig workers, ~ and much more. We are all in this together, both employers and employees. Now more than every Australia cannot afford a more draconian industrial relations system. https://www.theaustralian.com.au//d2383aa9780b9b233771b18e

04.01.2022 Union leaders, like Michele O'Neil the ACTU President, need a course in basic economics. Money doesn't appear out of thin air. If business are forced to dump another 2.5 per cent of workers' salaries into super, they will have that much less money for payroll. For some businesses that means they will have to forgo bonuses and annual raises. Others will need to cut their workers' pay. And still others may need to lay off workers to make ends meet. Despite what unions would have us think, super comes directly out of our paychecks.