Press Release | Three New Senior Appointments for Swaab
Trina Francis – Partner, Family Law, specialising in family law, lawyer-assisted mediation and litigation will be joining our award winning…
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Following the release of the Productivity Commission draft report on the workplace relations framework, Don Argus, former chairman of BHP Billiton, told Fairfax media that the Australian workplace relations system needs to be improved or the country will end up “like Greece”.
Following the release of the Productivity Commission draft report on the workplace relations framework, Don Argus, former chairman of BHP Billiton, told Fairfax media that the Australian workplace relations system needs to be improved or the country will end up “like Greece”.
The reform suggests a change in penalty rates, unfair dismissal laws and the Fair Work Commission. According to Argus these changes need to happen sooner rather than later because “contagion will shift very quickly”.
Employment law specialist, Warwick Ryan says “Where he [Argus] does have a point is this – it is the most confusing industrial relations system in the world, unequivocally and objectively.”.
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