Shadow Treasurer Warns Labor Government Against Imposing Strict Laws on Employers

Published on November 17, 2023

Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor has warned the Labor government against tilting workplace laws too far in favour of union officials. Speaking at an event to mark the resurgence of the HR Nicholls Society, Mr. Taylor touched on where he believed the Labor government was going wrong. “Elite Australia, including senior union officials, has a very large voice and I think Labor is inclined to listen to those voices rather than think about what’s in the interests of middle Australia,” he told attendees in Sydney on Nov. 17. Mr. Taylor said good workplace laws were the bedrock of economic prosperity, pointing to a major dispute in the 1980s as an example of why industrial relations laws could not go to extremes....

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