The AFR View
Labor’s IR bill as bad as the poor process
The sum of the changes are all about cracking down on existing workplace flexibilities and extending the archaic inflexibility of Australia’s complex, legalistic, and proscriptive industrial relations regime.
As hard as it is to believe in a sophisticated, modern society and economy, the back-room Senate horsetrading between a Labor Party that does the unions’ bidding, the Greens and two crossbench senators will end up rewriting the workplace laws regulating how tens of thousands of Australian businesses and millions of individual Australians choose to work.
The horsetrading between Industrial Relations Minister Tony Burke, Tasmanian senator Jackie Lambie and ACT senator David Pocock may soften some elements of Labor’s Closing Loopholes bill, such as around the “right to disconnect”.
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