The Albanese government is poised to soften the Better Off Overall Test in a bid to rescue the ailing enterprise bargaining system, accepting its previous outright opposition to change has been flawed.
Facilitating the change will be an agreement between the Business Council of Australia and the ACTU to “maintain but simplify the BOOT” to help reform the bargaining system “so it is simpler, fairer and more accessible”.
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