Labor leader Bill Shorten has bowed to union demands and will promise 2.6 million casual workers an easier pathway to permanent employment, as part of a widening overhaul of Australia's industrial relations system that has drawn warnings from nervous business leaders.
Employers are wary of any approach that would create red tape or interfere with their ability to employ casuals in industries with fluctuating demand, such as retail and hospitality.Business leaders have slammed Labor plans to increase the minimum wage for temporary skilled visa holders by 21 per cent to $65,000 in a bid to prevent local workers being under-cut by low income migrants.
Tally Konstas, who owns Melbourne bars Emerald Peacock and The Seamstress, said the minimum migrant wage increase "takes choice away from the employer and the employee"."If you increase that minimum payment it will preclude the four migrant workers I have employed. At the point I employed them they commanded that minimum but have developed to a point where they deserve the increases they’ve received," he said.
"If a local can do the job, or can be trained to do the job, then that job should go to a local," she said. Mr Shorten, campaigning in the Queensland marginal electorate of Flynn, said there were 1.6 million people in Australia with visas that gave them work rights.Under Labor's casual conversion plan, all workers would be able to ask to be made permanent after 12 months if they work a regular pattern of hours, and if an employer says "no" will have access to an appeals process through the Fair Work Commission.
Well done finally! Shorten hasn't bowed to union demands, it's a common ground Labor, the Unions and all long-term hard working Australians share - to have job security. The only nervous employers are those who exploit the system as part of their business model.
Unintended consequence of this? They will not be casual workers, they will be unemployed ones.
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