David Koch wins argument with straw man

Well it's not a straw man per se, more a disingenuous argument...

Koch said — and I don't have a transcript, so I'm just going from my notes — "under 100 people, that's a small business. Say you've got a corner store with four people..."

7 really shouldn't let a failed businessman comment on the new IR laws. He's probably still smarting because employees of Palamedia wouldn't work for free. He should know that a corner store with four people has less than 15 people, so it was covered by the old laws. Also how about a company with 99 employees, is that small?

The Sunrise folks also discussed a hypothetical where a person who was constantly off one day a week. Under the old laws all you had to do was give them a written warning a week for a few weeks and there was no barrier to getting rid of them. Fairly.

And don't get me started on the bits of the new legislation which intrude upon contractual relationships between employer and employee...

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Howard admits new IR laws are unnecessary?

I don't have a transcript or anything, but I just saw a grab of the lying rodent on Sky News and he seemed to be trumpeting the large amount of jobs created in the past 10 years. If there were so many jobs created before the new changes came in, isn't that evidence that the new laws are unnecessary?

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