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February 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Airline, education, transport and food manufacturing employees will tell an inquiry how their living standards suffer from insecure working conditions.
The casual and labour-hire workers will be the first to front the Howe Inquiry, a national examination into insecure jobs and how they affect the community.
Hearings will be held in 23 locations nationally, beginning in Brisbane on Monday.
Chairman, former deputy prime minister Brian Howe, says 40 per cent of Australian workers are employed in insecure work.
Casual employees make up almost a quarter for the workforce and fixed-term contracts and new forms of outwork are growing in many industries, he says.
“Many of these jobs deny workers the reliable income, permanency, security, and conditions and entitlements that permanent jobs offer,” Mr Howe said in a statement.
Queensland Council of Unions president John Battams says at least 670,000 Queenslanders work under casual, temporary or labour-hire terms – and the threat their hours may be cut.
“Those in industries such as tourism, hospitality and retail are facing the greatest risk to their job security and this uncertainty overflows into local communities and economies,” he said.
The inquiry will consider the rights and entitlements that can best assist to provide security for workers.
It will also sit in Mackay and Townsville this week.
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