Part 1 - Stimulus Based Skills: Employment Relations "We also need to make our workplace relation system simpler. Australia has over 130 different pieces of industrial relations legislation, over 4,000 different awards and six different workplace systems operating across the country. There are too many rules and regulations making it hard for many employees and employers to get together and reach agreements in their workplaces. We also have too much red tape, too much complexity and too much …showed first 75 words of 4017 total…

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