10:30-11:30am Session: Sustainable wages growth and the future of bargaining.
A transcript of Innes Willox's full address to the Jobs and Skills Summit on 1 September 2022 is available here (see right).
"Let’s look at the Fair Work Act which was legislated by an earlier Labor Government. A key object of it is “…achieving productivity and fairness through an emphasis on enterprise-level collective bargaining…”
'That has been the bedrock of policy for a very long time; something that former Prime Minister Paul Keating continually talked about. We should not lose sight of that. But very clearly, as has been outlined today, the system is not working as intended or as it should."
"We would argue that with sensible reforms, rather than with radical change, that the system can once again play a much greater role in delivering the objectives we all want of higher productivity and better pay for employees."
