The Albanese government has dismissed an ACTU call for workers to have shorter hours, including a four-day work week, saying it has no intention of making industrial relations changes this term beyond those promised during the election campaign.
While business groups rounded on the proposal as a populist, anti-productivity thought bubble, they also questioned why the Australian Council of Trade Unions was able to put workplace relations on the agenda at next week’s Economic Reform Roundtable when the government had explicitly ruled the topic off limits.
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