Shadow Employment Minister Michaelia Cash. Source: Lukas Coch / AAP Image
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Small businesses have been given some breathing room before the next tranche of industrial relations reforms becomes law, after the Senate voted to push a report on the Albanese government’s ‘Closing Loopholes’ bill into 2024.
Seeking to pass the new industrial relations reforms before Parliament breaks over Christmas, the government pushed for the Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee to table its report on the lengthy legislation in late November.
That timeline “allows for a reasonable amount of time for it to come back and be considered by this chamber,” Minister for Finance Katy Gallagher told the Senate on Thursday.
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