After ‘increasing casualisation’ was exposed as a myth, Labor and the unions have latched on to ‘the permanent casual worker loophole’. That’s just another myth.
The federal government’s latest plan to attack very long-standing and accepted practices around casual employment, which it defines as “loopholes”, is without doubt a solution in search of a problem.
A loophole is defined as a small mistake which allows people to do something that would otherwise be illegal (Collins).
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Innes Willox is chief executive of the Australian Industry Group.