Australia’s peak union body and representative of small businesses have agreed to cooperate on workplace reform ahead of the Jobs and Skills Summit.
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA) will work together to simplify and reduce complexities in the industrial relations system for small businesses.
This includes working towards a simpler “better off overall test (BOOT)” and options for multi-employer collective bargaining.
The BOOT is a test the Fair Work Commission uses to ensure that an employee is better off under a new registered agreement than the relevant award.
COSBOA CEO Alexi Boyd said small businesses do not have the same level of resources available to big businesses in terms of lawyers and HR departments….