A clash in the Senate is threatening to halt a federal Labor plan to pass new workplace laws by Christmas after the Greens aired their concerns about changes that are meant to lift wages when inflation is eroding household incomes. | CroweDM
A clash in the Senate is threatening to halt a federal Labor plan to pass new workplace laws by Christmas after the Greens aired their concerns about changes that are meant to lift wages when inflation is eroding household incomes.
The government agenda for the Senate does not set aside any time for the workplace or anti-corruption bills this week, leaving four days in the subsequent week to decide two of the government’s most important and complex reforms.A key concern for the Greens is a section of the workplace bill that amends the longstanding Better Off Overall Test in workplace lawso wage deals are not halted by technicalities at the Fair Work Commission.
Employers have welcomed Burke’s willingness to amend the BOOT and ACTU secretary Sally McManus has accepted the idea of simplifying the test, but some unions are urging the government to keep the current measures in place because the changes would weaken protections for workers. RAFFWU is seeking to persuade the Greens to block the changes, setting up a clash with Labor and the longstanding union in the retail sector, the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association . Burke was an organiser for the SDA before entering NSW and, later, federal parliament.
The next step in the argument over the bill will be the release of a parliamentary committee report into the draft law on Tuesday, airing views from Labor, the Coalition, the Greens and crossbenchers including ACT Senator David Pocock.
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