Julie Collins (Franklin, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Small Business) Share this | Hansard source

that will improve productivity and give businesses the benefit of negotiating with their employees. Indeed, when you go to the regulatory impact statement and you keep reading, it says:

The significant benefits of being covered by an enterprise agreement and the costs that may be associated with remaining covered by a Modern Award outweigh the additional cost for businesses to engage with the new multi-enterprise bargaining streams—

not to mention that most small businesses will go into the cooperative stream—

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