The stage has been set ahead of this week's jobs and skills summit, with migration policy, training and industrial relations reforms likely to dominate the two-day agenda.
With wage growth falling well behind skyrocketing inflation, the mechanism used by workers to collectively negotiate better wages and conditions - enterprise bargaining - has come under the microscope.
Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Sally McManus will focus on workers' bargaining powers as the government flags potential enterprise bargaining reforms.
