Federal cabinet signs off on new workplace laws, despite business concerns
Unions have been campaigning for the move, arguing it would give low-paid workers — particularly in female-dominated professions like aged care — more power by allowing them to group together with workers in similar businesses to negotiate one big workplace agreement covering pay and conditions.
"There appears to be an undue haste in relation to pushing forward proposals for multi-employer bargaining," said the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Andrew McKellar, who is attending his last planned consultation session on Thursday this week. "The process for consultation … still has some way to run. Any proposals at this stage are, at best, half cooked".
The BOOT is often cited by business as too restrictive and a key reason for the decline in enterprise bargaining agreements in recent years.
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