Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry CEO Andrew McKellar says industrial relations reforms for same job, same pay are leading to many pressures on small businesses and “can’t be ignored”.
“There are a lot of pressures on business and particularly small business at the moment, those things can’t be ignored, we need to have a discussion about
that, we need to understand what those impacts are … it’s right for business to be raising those issues at this point in time,” Mr McKellar told Sky News Australia.
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