Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has warned multi-employer bargaining could send business back to the industrial past as business groups demand guarantees bargaining would be “voluntary”.
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce has taken a hard line that multi-employer bargaining must not swing the balance against employers amid criticism that business has been duped into radically reshaping the industrial relations system in favour of unions.
“So in trying to solve one set of problems we need to be careful to avoid creating new ones,” he said. “We urge proponents of this change to put a detailed proposition on the table, based on existing elements of the act, and clarifying it with; a clear outline of the problem we’re trying to solve; confirmation that such a system would be voluntary for workers and businesses; and explaining exactly how it would be implemented and how broadly the system would apply.”
“The pitch [on multi-employer bargaining] is to just do it in those low-paid areas but at the end of the day, the union movement is seeing this as a chance to revitalise their membership,” he said. COSBOA chief executive Alexi Boyd said she had no second thoughts on her in-principle support for multi-employer agreements as a way to simplify awards for small businesses effectively locked out of enterprise bargaining.“Every single one of our members is behind this. The board is behind it. We have not had a single member remove their membership.”rights or anything that infringed on small businesses’ autonomy.
“We’ve got to be very careful we don’t solve one problem and create 50 others. We still believe the best way to get productivity and rising wages is fix the EBA system.”“What we want to see is the detail put on the table. We want to see what is the problem we’re trying to solve, how is this going to work, how is it going to be initiated, how are things like protected [industrial] actions going to be managed,” she said.
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