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July 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A key business group says Labor and the coalition need to reveal their workplace policies at least six months before the next federal election and promise greater flexibility.
The comments came as Prime Minister Julia Gillard said industrial relations would be one of the single biggest issues for the 2013 election.
The government is expected to receive a report from an independent review of the Fair Work Act next week, before making changes to the system.
Ms Gillard used a speech to the NSW ALP conference at the weekend to rally her party and the union movement to fight the coalition on industrial relations issues.
Council of Small Business Australia executive director Peter Strong told AAP on Monday that voters – especially the nation’s 2.5 million small-business operators – needed six months ahead of any poll to make an informed decision on workplace policy.
Mr Strong said the current system was too complicated for small business, and this was borne out by figures showing about one in four businesses did not comply with aspects of the Fair Work Act.
“Work Choices and Fair Work – neither of them work for small business,” Mr Strong said.
“The less time we spend working on the complexities of the system, the more time we can build our business and address things like safety issues.
“It’s not based on ideology – it’s just based on the reality of the workplace.”
Weekend penalty rates needed to be more flexible to boost employment, Mr Strong said.
Ms Gillard, speaking in North Fremantle on Monday, said industrial relations would be “one of the single biggest issues for the forthcoming election campaign”.
“The Leader of the Opposition Tony Abbott last week in a speech made it absolutely clear they are after cutting … the kinds of benefits that working people rely on to make ends meet,” she said.
“They’ve got form in the past … (but) under Labor you’ll always see fairness and decency.”
Opposition frontbencher Christopher Pyne said it was a cynical exercise to distract voters.
“The prime minister’s strategy is utterly transparent, and it’s totally cynical,” Mr Pyne told Sky News.
“Rather than talk about the carbon tax or her failed border-protection policies … she has created a new weapon of mass destruction and that is to talk about industrial relations.”
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