Small business representatives are opposing a new “multi-employer bargaining” law that could allow workers to force business owners into potentially industry-wide negotiations over pay and conditions.
In a submission to a Senate inquiry into the Secure Jobs Better Pay Bill (the Bill), the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA) said it did not support the new model warning it would create more red tape for business.
The group also suggested all small businesses be excluded from this form of bargaining rather than organisations with 15 employees or less.
“COSBOA has grave concerns about this aspect of the Bill and the inadvertent impacts on small businesses within a supply chain and the risk of being roped in,” the submission said….