Sweeping reforms to set a pay floor for gig workers would sharply increase the price of meal delivery and ride-share trips ordered through Uber’s app,the digital platform predicts.
Robert Ireland told politicians more deaths would be on their heads if they blocked legislation to give minimum standards to road transport workers.
States and territories are agitating for the release of the report on banning engineered stone as unions and health experts call for the recommendations to be made public.
When the government introduced its Closing Loopholes Bill to parliament on Monday,it had detractors. By Thursday,the draft laws had been put on ice.
Tony Burke accused the Coalition of holding up pay rises after crossbenchers voted with the opposition to delay a Senate report into Labor’s IR bill.
The workplace relations minister says the pay increase for some workers under the government’s IR bill made up a “tiny proportion” of the nation’s wages budget.
Rideshare drivers and food deliverers are expected to receive an extra $400 million a year,while wages in the labour-hire sector could rise by $510 million annually,detail in the bill shows.
Employment Minister Tony Burke will promise to target big companies that use labour hire firms to undercut wages they pay their other workers.
A new federal wage theft offence is a key component of the federal government’s latest tranche of workplace reforms to be introduced to parliament on Monday.
Business groups are warning of higher prices for consumers and job losses under federal workplace laws to be put to parliament next week.
Millions of consumers will be asked to accept new rules to protect food delivery drivers and other gig economy workers despite industry claims it will push up prices.