Business will seek to limit the Albanese government’s gig worker laws to minimum pay, opposing powers to mandate conditions such as portable leave and rest breaks on grounds they threaten to increase costs and push up prices for consumers.

The Business Council of Australia, which is expected to campaign against the government’s second tranche of industrial relations changes in the coming months, in a submission lashed the proposed gig economy laws as threatening to restrict wages, rostering and the ability for gig workers to easily move between platforms.