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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says the economy is in a strong position to overcome the vaccine-rollout setback and the government will not be deterred from withdrawing emergency spending to prepare for a post-pandemic world.
Economists warn that the vaccine delay would slightly impede the economic recovery because any virus breakouts could trigger snap lockdowns, state border closures and longer waits to get international tourists and students back to Australia.
Green light for economic recovery: Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is adamant JobKeeper wonât be back.Â
Eamon Gallagher
Less than five weeks from the May 11 federal budget, Mr Frydenberg told
AFR Weekend in a pre-budget interview that the AstraZeneca vaccine advice for under-50s âwas another reminder weâre still in the middle of a pandemicâ, though he declined to specify the potential economic impact.
Centre Alliance senator Stirling Griff. Source: AAP.
The failure of the government to pass the bulk of the industrial relations omnibus bill shows that satisfying the demands of industry groups, small business associations and unions is like pulling teeth.
Despite the Morrison government carrying out extensive round table discussions with employer, industry, and union groups to come to a consensus, just one of the five key parts of the industrial relations bill passed the Senate in March.
Leading up to the vote, an unlikely agreement was struck between the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA) and the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) in relation to casual employment.
What is the ‘right to disconnect’, and should you be thinking about it?
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Earlier this week, workers for Victoria Police won the ‘right to disconnect’, giving them freedom from all work-related contact when they’re off the clock, with the exception of emergencies.
The news has sparked some discussion in both the public and private sectors. In a post-pandemic world, in which the boundary between work and home has been all-out erased, should employees be able to go offline as soon as 5pm rolls around? And do they want to?
We’ve taken a look at what exactly the right to disconnect means, some of the issues involved, and whether businesses should be responsible for their employees’ work-life balance.
Assistant minister for women Amanda Stoker says it supports them either in exact terms or in spirit.
In some instances the government disagrees on how Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins, who conducted the report, recommended they occur. We see where you re coming from but we re going to do it a slightly different way, Senator Stoker told the ABC on Thursday.
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One recommendation is to change sex discrimination laws to force all employers to proactively take measures to eliminate the behaviour.
However the government is only promising to assess whether that change would create complexity, noting similar provisions in work health and safety legislation.
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