Senate horse-trading sends small business the bill for workplace complexity
The IR changes – and the opaque way changes have been prosecuted – run roughshod over the government’s election commitment to make life easier for small business
Recent commentary by trade union leadership in these pages stated that businesses who oppose the government’s IR program are supportive of loopholes and wage suppression.
“Armed with expensive lawyers,” Australian companies were said to be “desperate to keep open the loopholes that have allowed them to keep wage growth low”.
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Luke Achterstraat is the CEO of the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia
