The government will confine the jobs and skills summit to the priority economic challenges, to stop it becoming a talkfest that doesn’t achieve anything.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers says next month’s job summit will focus on the immediate economic challenges such as labour and skills shortages, industrial relations and productivity, and not tax cuts or a revamped economic order, which groups such as the Greens and the ACTU want to raise.
The five areas are maintaining full employment and growing productivity; boosting job security and wages; lifting participation and reducing barriers to employment; delivering a high-quality labour force through skills, training and migration; and maximising opportunities in the industries of the future.
“This may help arrest the decline in people undertaking work-related training, which fell by 9 per cent over 2013 to 2020-21.” The summit will look for a consensus between business and unions, such as the Morrison government sought to broker when it tried to reform the IR system but was stymied by the Senate.
The last segment will seek ideas on how to exploit, and ensure there are adequate workers for “the industries of the future”.
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