A Stifling System Crippling Trust

Thank you, The Canberra Times for the opportunity to contribute an article on the important issues of wage theft and compliance, and the wider impact these issues are having on Australia’s productivity.

Australia stands at a crossroads between its ambitious plans to make the nation a manufacturing powerhouse again, and its damaging disconnect between its complicated industrial relations (IR) systems, technology, and HR processes.

We are seeing productivity hampered, workers dejected, and employers unable to fairly and accurately pay their staff, while the Government avoids – and I believe largely fails to understand – the issues at the centre of these worrying trends.

We need to seriously invest in technology that can simplify the systems that inhibit its use to drive productivity and efficiency. I believe the Government needs to lead this, through incentives and leading by example as one of the country's largest employers and procurers of workforce management and payroll technology.

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