Treasurer Jim Chalmers says next month’s job summit will focus on the immediate economic challenges such as labour and skills shortages, industrial relations and productivity, and not tax cuts or a revamped economic order, which groups such as the Greens and the ACTU want to raise.

Keen to ensure the summit, to be held on the first two days of September, is not hijacked by other issues such as tax reform and descends into a non-productive talkfest, Dr Chalmers has released an issues paper in a bid to focus the agenda.