Updating the industrial relations system would promote flexibility and greater teamwork, says the chairman of Australia's biggest employer Gordon Cairns.
Woolworths chairman Gordon Cairns: "With 15 per cent unemployment staring us down the barrel of the gun, the first priority is to get people back into work." Louie Douvis
Cutting weekend penalty rates would be an important step to stimulating jobs growth, says the chairman of Australia's biggest employer.
Gordon Cairns, chairman of Woolworths, which also owns the BIG W discount chain, praised Prime Minister Scott Morrison's move to bring trade unions and employers together to negotiate an overhaul of the industrial relations system and to replace COAG with the national cabinet.
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