ACTU says link govt procurement contracts to number of permanent employees

05 Nov 2010

Source:  The Australian
To reduce what the ACTU terms 'precarious employment', he president of the ACTU, Ged Kearney, canvassed the option of the federal government using its procurement policies to favour companies with permanent employees. She also called on employer groups to produce their own suggestions.

Peter Anderson of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry likened the ACTU's proposal to controlling the labour market 'with some set of command and control rules'. National Retail Association executive director Gary Black described the proposal as "pretty typical of an organisation whose constituency doesn't relate to the modern-day Australian economy, which is dominated by the services sector".

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