Changes to the national minimum wage, penalty rates and unfair dismissal laws will be canvassed by the biggest inquiry into Australia’s workplace relations system for the last 30 years.
The first major review of Australia’s workplace regulations in 30 years will question the purpose and effectiveness of industrial relations’s sacred cows: a high minimum wage, high penalty rates for weekend work and the complex system of industrial awards.
Business last night welcomed the release of the first stage of the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into workplace relations, which unions labelled an attack on entitlements and wages.
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