Businesses welcome ‘some concessions’ in IR changes

Businesses have been given the detail they were requesting about the federal government’s second wave of workplace reforms, including some concessions and a narrowing of scope.to give them a detailed briefing on industrial relations laws coming later this year, including same job, same pay for labour hire, minimum conditions for gig workers and criminalisation of underpayments.

Participants were asked to sign confidentiality deeds. However, without revealing the content of the briefing, a source said some proposals were “better than expected” with a “few welcome concessions” while other sections included new items. “It’s disappointing a decision has been made before basic procedural fairness, which ironically is one of the core elements of the Fair Work laws. We hope the government will continue to negotiate with us in good faith.”Friday’s consultation was understood to be separate from the legislated body that deals with draft IR bills known as the National Workplace Relations Consultative Council and which includes the MBA.

A business campaign against the same job, same pay rules had raised fears about the laws based on how broad the early consultation had been, raising concerns the rules would pay less experienced workers the same as company veterans - measures Mr Burke said he had never proposed.

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