In this urgent special guest episode I am joined by Ken Philips from Self Employed Australia to talk about the major industrial relation law changes the federal government is currently trying to get through Parliament.
An unexpected and sneaky deal in the last week of Parliament saw two crossbenchers, Pocock and Lambie, suddenly do a deal with the government to smash through half of this legislation. This is despite both senators voting for a full committee review into the legislation and the report on this due in February. They went against their own previous votes and did a deal to pass half of it anyway before seeing the report.
This has blindsided industries and stakeholders who are now grappling with the fallout of some of these reforms getting through. There are now valid concerns that these two may do another deal to smash through the balance of this legislation, which contains outrageous changes to how small businesses, casuals and independent contractors operate in Australia. If this legislation passes, it will impact almost every casual worker, independent contractor and small business in the country.
In this episode we go through what has happened so far, what the major issues are and what can be done next.
Further information can be found at:
Self Employed Australia (latest blog update)
Defend Your Rights campaign (run by MBA)