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Albanese said a national Jobs and Skills Summit was being held to help the government know the best way to invest in jobs and skills.
"I want employers, unions and the non-government sector to get together over the two days next week and produce practical outcomes," he said. "It will provide a focus on jobs and skills about how we lift wages, lift profits, whilst boosting productivity is the way that we can do it, while putting downward pressure on inflation."Albanese said issues with job and skill shortages in the country had not just been created by the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Immediate skills shortages need to be dealt with and we will be dealing with those constructively but also we need better planning.
This hasn't just happened and it is not because of the pandemic, it is because we had a government that was asleep at the wheel for a decade."
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