Stephen Smith (Perth, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Industry, Infrastructure and Industrial Relations) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer and Acting Prime Minister. I refer to advice circulated by Industrial Labour Solutions, a Melbourne industrial relations consultancy, promoting the use of independent contractors, which states:

By engaging Independent Contractors;

Pay rates are no longer tied to EBA requirements.

Redundancy payments are abolished.

EBA restrictions are removed.

What has the government told Industrial Labour Solutions about the content of its proposed independent contractors legislation? Isn’t the attack upon wages and conditions through this legislation the reason the government has recently refused the states’ request to see a draft of the bill prior to its introduction?

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