Aussie employees call on government to force business...
More than half of Australian companies are turning their backs on environmentally friendly initiatives according to a survey of 1,014 employees by leading career-building and networking company LinkMe.com.au, Australia's leading online career networking site and 34.7% of respondents say it's time the Government instituted laws to ensure that bosses are obliged to participate.
25% of respondents to the survey believe the management of their workplace does not care about environmental issues at all, and 32.6% report that environmental initiatives are never even considered or discussed.
Mr Campbell Sallabank, CEO of LinkMe.com.au says 34.6% of respondents claim that the company they work for has no aims to be environmentally friendly at all.
"There is a perception in the marketplace that there are more important concerns in the workplace like making money, achieving targets and keeping the show on the road, than taking the time to investigate and instigate environmentally friendly strategies.
"Of those surveyed 31.9% said the Government should provide free workplace consultants to aid and educate employers in order to implement correct environmental practices, 25.6% said the Government should make it attractive for employers to be environmentally friendly and give out Government grants and 23% even went as far as recommending that there should be tax cuts for those organisations actively lowering green house gas emissions.
"However 20.4% said the industry they work in is never going to be environmentally friendly."
