Labor’s ‘Secure Jobs, Better Pay’ Laws Give Too Much Power to Unions, Removes Flexibility: Think Tank

H.R. Nicholls Society urges repealing the law, proposing an ‘Employment Act’ to protect Australia’s economic future.

Office workers are seen at lunch break at Martin Place in Sydney, Australia Dec. 12, 2018. AAP Image/Mick Tsikas

By enforcing a centralised workplace agreements and removing individual ones, the Fair Work Act is locking Australia into decades of stagnant productivity, stifling innovation, and economic growth, H.R. Nicholls Society warns.

“The Fair Work Act has not been fair at all,” said Frank Parry KC, president of the industrial relations think tank.