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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Paul Karp

Labor’s industrial relations bill: how will it change Australia’s workplaces?

Tony Burke in the house of representatives
Workplace relations minister Tony Burke introducing the extensive secure jobs, better pay bill into parliament. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

The workplace relations minister, Tony Burke, has unveiled Labor’s secure jobs, better pay bill, revealing the wide-ranging changes to industrial law that have sparked employer backlash.

The Albanese government says the bill is needed to get wages moving again, but how will it do so and what hoops will unions need to jump through to negotiate a pay deal, if it passes?

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