Low-paid women are too afraid to speak up about illegal or unfair work conditions or request changes to their hours in case they get sacked under the WorkChoices laws, research shows.
But the Federal Government says the "deeply flawed and politically motivated" report, which will be released today, was commissioned by Labor premiers with the sole intention of contributing to a $100 million WorkChoices scare campaign.
The report says the loss of protection from unfair dismissal in small businesses "casts a long shadow across the parts of the labour market in which minimum-wage workers are concentrated". Most Australians are now unable to appeal against a dismissal on the ground that it is unreasonable, it says.
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