A gutted industrial relations bill has passed the Senate minus provisions on wage theft, award simplification, enterprise bargaining and greenfields agreements.
Following a morning of fierce negotiation with the crossbench, just one of the five provisions in the bill – measures dealing with casuals – passed.
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