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A former food delivery rider who is claiming unfair dismissal at the Fair Work Commission says he is fighting for change in the gig economy, in what is believed to be the first case of its kind in Australia.
Josh Klooger, 28, said he first started to work for food delivery service Foodora in Melbourne in 2016.
"I thought I had found the dream job. Getting paid to ride a bike," he said.
"At the time, it was pretty good. I was getting $14 an hour and $5 per delivery," he said outside the commission in Sydney.
But over time the wages for new riders fell, he said.
"It reduced to $13 an hour, $3 per delivery. Then in October 2016, it dropped down to $10 an order and zero per hour," Mr Klooger said.
The payment per order dropped further in 2017 and was $7 an order in early 2018.
Mr Klooger said he was dismissed in March for publicly talking about his pay and conditions.

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An ABC investigation has found private hospitals and clinics are getting between 5 and 50 per cent of the value of pacemakers as rebate payments in cash, or in-kind, for using a particular company's brand.
Under one agreement, a clinic attracted rebates of up to 50 per cent for purchases that added up to more than $3 million.
Legal experts and industry insiders say this payment is better described as a kickback, it could be costing the health system millions, inflating insurance premiums, and ultimately impacting on public-hospital patients.

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Under the scheme, a doctor recommends a pacemaker for a patient. The doctor then informs the private hospital and that hospital requests that device from the manufacturer.
The hospital invoices the health insurer, which pays the hospital for the full cost of the pacemaker, and this invoice is then paid in full back to the manufacturer.
The manufacturer then "rebates" a proportion of the total cost back to the private hospital. That rebate is subject to negotiation and varies between hospitals.

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AgentF posted:

But this was a beat-up though. She went down there to host community forums, meet with businesses and draw attention to the Bight. This was entirely within her remit as a parliamentarian. It wasn't even bad, let alone anywhere near the large-scale rorting we see from the Liberal party. How was this anything more than NewsCorp piling on?

racing identity posted:

She can be the most self-promoting person in the world if she opposes the concentrations camps that Labor and the Coalition support.

Guess what, nearly every politician who has ever lived and ever will live is a manifestly awful, power-hungry, ladder climbing sociopath. Support the one who doesn't lust for the blood of refugees.

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Incinerating household waste using "best-practice" European combustion technology meets the criteria for investment by Australia's national clean energy bank.
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) — which has never invested in an incineration project before — has indicated it is open to financing such schemes.

JBP posted:

We are. Everyone does. We are conducting more wide ranging discussion. I don't think a single poster has not come out to bat for her.

JBP posted:

I always thought I was about to have a schizoid embolism when SHY was on because it was like being mentally assaulted by every single student politics lecture invader at once.

racing identity posted:

JBP posted:

Yeah no poo poo. I also said that she's way better at politicking now and a lot of people itt got over it too. Conduct and personality are actually important to a politician, hth.

racing identity posted:

So she was the victim of sexual harrassment in the workplace and your contribution was "I used to think she was bad but she has since prpven to be good"

You were a better poster before you rebranded into an ersatz IWC contrarian pretending to be much stupider than you actually are

JBP posted:

I'm not talking about the situation with Leyonhjelm because the consensus is that she is right, he is wrong and there needs to be some kind of rules change or penalty imposed to address it.

norp posted:

How about just enforce workplace sexual harassment, bullying, discrimination laws from parliamentary privilege.
In any other workplace this would be a slam dunk sexual harassment case. Just imagine if someone had said that poo poo at an all hands company meeting

norp posted:

Just imagine if someone had said that poo poo at an all hands company meeting

AgentF posted:

Pro-paedophilia. Associates with someone who acts like a child.

Birdstrike posted:

Lmao comparing shy to aoc

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Imagine how lovely you have to be to take a case of sexual harassment and make it about the victim

JBP posted:

She is our most left female politician because we only tolerate white people.

e: SHY is actually more like Rosa Parks though in this instance.

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Don Dongington posted:

It appears JBP has fallen down a well

*the sound of 47 pairs of Goony cargo pants unzipping*

JBP posted:

Only true IWC fans will get the Rosa Parks reference.

Starshark posted:

That's me hosed then.

gucci bane posted:

Let's get rid of parliamentary privilege. This won't backfire

MysticalMachineGun posted:

I think the Speaker of the House should have reasonable powers to strike something from parliamentary privilege if it is found to be overly insulting, harassing or threatening.

JBP posted:

Sloth was right though. It's pretty incredible watching the Liberal party fall in to support SHY.

Solemn Sloth posted:

Actually it’s because I hate all women who I don’t want to gently caress

bell jar posted:

i think my favourite iwc was the time he pretended to be a muslim woman and posted a lot about walking alone at night

Solemn Sloth posted:

Even if you don’t agree with criticism of SHY, it’s pretty obvious that the entire right wing go into apoplexy about her whether it’s MPs or sky news or the herald sun, so the fact that all of them are in lock step against lleyonhelm (reluctantly/belatedly/half heartedly in some cases) goes to show just what a garbage idiot he is.

Latham is probably the only person left who would even try to defend him over this

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Former federal Labor opposition leader turned media commentator Mark Latham has announced he will join the Liberal Democrats Party, headed by David Leyonhjelm.

Mr Latham revealed his decision in a post on his Facebook page, saying he was returning to politics to "play a role in fighting for our national values".

"I support 80-90 per cent of the Liberal Democrats platform, pretty good for someone with strong views formed over a long period of time," Mr Latham said.

"So I have joined up and want to play a role in fighting for our national values, based on personal freedom and responsibility."

He said the "party of freedom" allowed room for "dissent and diversity of opinion", something he said contrasted greatly to the values of his former party.

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The Outsider Mark Latham tells Chris Kenny the sexist remarks made by Senator Leyonhjelm are “just inappropriate”.

“I would barely agree with anything Sarah Hanson-Young says about politics, in that respect I think she’s a fool, but the reality is, even fools have got the right to privacy with regards to their sex life.

“What I find disappointing about Senator Leyonhjelm is that David is Australia’s most prominent libertarian and an important part of liberty is to respect the privacy of others.

“To double down, as Leyonhjelm has… time after time, you know, is just inappropriate, it’s wrong. It doesn’t add to the debate.

“You can make mistakes in politics, you should apologise and I think Leyonhjelm’s in that position today.”

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Nobody's suggesting this?

I think the Speaker of the House should have reasonable powers to strike something from parliamentary privilege if it is found to be overly insulting, harassing or threatening.