Fair Work Commission to set minimum standards and hear termination disputes under new bill, prompting fierce reaction from employer groups
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Labor claims it has won support to revive minimum conditions in the road transport industry and will push to make further changes to pay deal bargaining, the workplace relations minister, Tony Burke, has revealed.
With employer backlash brewing over the closing loophole bill’s same job same pay provisions, Labor has opened up new fronts by revealing truck owner-drivers could be awarded minimum rates of pay by the industrial umpire, restoring protections controversially repealed by the Coalition.
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