{"id":134406,"date":"2025-09-11T04:32:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/134406\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T04:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:32:20","slug":"employment-rights-bill-business-groups-urge-changes-to-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/134406\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment Rights Bill: Business groups urge changes to reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In response to the letter, a government spokesperson said the Bill will represent &#8220;the biggest upgrade to workers&#8217; rights in a generation, and our measures already have strong support amongst business and the public&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve consulted extensively with business on our proposals,&#8221; the spokesperson added. &#8220;We will engage on the implementation of legislation to ensure it works for employers and workers alike.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last month, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said it has not been able to take account of the Employment Rights Bill in its forecasting as there is not enough detail available on the policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, it said regulations which &#8220;affect the flexibility of businesses and labour markets&#8221; are likely to have &#8220;material and probably net negative, economic impacts on employment, prices, and productivity&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In response to the letter, a government spokesperson said the Bill will represent &#8220;the biggest upgrade to workers&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,63,99,180],"class_list":["post-134406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}