Labor shores up IR for election battle
People in insecure work will be able to transfer their entitlements from one job to another, wage parity will be granted to labour hire employees, and gig economy workers will be entitled to minimum wages and conditions under a raft of changes Labor will implement if it wins the next federal election.
And, in a move certain to rekindle arguments about union militancy, Labor leader Anthony Albanese will also promise to abolish the building sector watchdog, the Australian Building and Construction Commission, and the trade union regulator, the Registered Organisations Commission.
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