Pandemic workaround to push through workplace agreements without better-off test

Sally Whyte
Updated December 9 2020 - 6:42am, first published December 8 2020 - 10:30pm
Industrial Relations Minister Christian Porter says the system is too complicated. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos
Industrial Relations Minister Christian Porter says the system is too complicated. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

Employers will be able to use the COVID-19 pandemic as a reason for an enterprise agreement to be approved even if it doesn't pass the better-off-overall test for two years, under more industrial relations changes to be announced by the government on Wednesday.

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Sally Whyte

Sally Whyte

Federal Politics Reporter

I report on a range of issues in federal politics and the public service, with a real passion for how decisions made in Canberra affect the lives of Australians.

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