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SIR: Joel Butler (December 2005) stigmatises as "one of the most amusing criticisms" of the federal workplace restructuring legislation that of Professor Andrew Stewart, who made the observation that employers would require more legal advice to understand the new regime.
Yet the criticism of legalism in Mr Howard's package is perfectly reasonable. Employers and employees are faced with a series of amendments to the 1996 legislation which, in their original parliamentary form, involved 684 pages, accompanied by an explanatory memorandum, intended to represent a precis of the changes, of 565 pages. Moreover, once the changes ...