Workplace and Employment Objectives:

The Australian Workers Party have clear objectives when it comes to your rights at work and how our workplace relations system should be there to protect working people. We are serious about workers’ rights and workplace fairness.

These workplace and employment related positions include:

• To propose the review of all Australian Bureau of Statistics and governmental methods and measures of employment data collection that will rely upon more realistic figures of employment, that is a person should not be deemed to be employed if that person is doing 1 hour of work per week.
• To ensure the rights of apprentices and trainees with the establishment of a national code of practice and standards to maintain consistency of wages and conditions of any apprentice or trainee.
• To propose greater tax concessions to employers who encourage participation in training and education of employees.
• To propose the end of any exemptions from industrial and discrimination laws for any employer who are currently exempt, such as religious organisations.
• To propose the full portability of entitlements such as Long Service Leave for all employees after a tenure of more than 24 months of continuous employment.
• To ensure the protection of full accrued entitlements of all workers through the establishment of a government guaranteed workers’ entitlement fund.
• To ensure the maximisation of the pursuit of individual prosperity, AWP should promote the removal of higher rates of taxation for any worker engaged in a second job, whether that job is full-time, part-time or a casual position.
• To propose that all small businesses, employing 15 people or less are exempt from any Federal, State or Territorial Pay Roll taxes.
• To propose the re-establishment of a Commonwealth employment agency and the end of government outsourcing to for-profit employment services.
• To end any punitive and worthless compulsory “work-for-the-dole” schemes, unless they are of real training or vocational value to any person seeking employment.
• To support a complete review of the Newstart scheme and how government treats people who have become unemployed. We do not support a system which is punitive or callous or subjects Australians citizens to poverty.
• To propose that any employee who is employed within the scope of any position relating directly with Research & Development, be it scientific or technological, be exempt from any Federal, State or Territorial Payroll taxes.
• ​To look at the feasibility of the introduction of a 32 hour work week to better balance the lives of working people.
  

The Universal Job Guarantee:

• AWP Job Guarantee platform would enact the ability of government to continuously absorb all workers that have been displaced from private sector employment.
• When one glass starts to become empty the Federal Government counteracts by triggering basic income via local Governments.
• Jobs would be created via local Government/Councils in the form of community beneficial programs paid at the minimum wage thus replacing demoralising Work For The Dole style programs and exploitation.
• Imagination is the only limit on what type of jobs are created. Anything from Life Guards to Graffiti removal and everything in between. It could even be as simple as helping elderly Australians cross the road.
• If a job role has benefit for the local community then it becomes part of the Job Guarantee Program.
• The Government's employment and spending automatically increases (decreases) as jobs are lost (gained) in the private sector. This approach generates full employment and price stability.
• The Job Guarantee wage provides a floor that prevents serious deflation from occurring and defines the private sector wage structure. 
• Job Guarantee also helps boost local economies by increasing spending amounts by beneficiaries to the JG program creating a win/win scenario.
• JG also flushes out those who refuse to work.​

More indepth analyisis can be found here at the Centre of Full Employment & Equity or watch the video below.
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The Unemployed:

• All Government welfare benefits raised in accordance with the Henderson Poverty Line (More Info Found Here).
• The complete abolition of PTY LTD Employment Services.
• Recommissioning of the Commonwealth Employment Service (CES).
• The complete eradication of punitive measures regarding eligibility for income support payments.
• Termination of Work For The Dole programs and replaced with Universal Job Guarantees.
• End discrimination against welfare recipients across the board.
• Creation of creative work ready programs to compliment Job Guarantee strategy.
• Government protection ready laws for guaranteed minimum wage for new/returning workers.
• Hold existing private sector Employment Services accountable for abuse of power via Independent Commission.

Latest report on our Government's failure to protect fallen Australian workers and their families can be found here.