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Over recent months, we have witnessed the Morrison Government stage a multi-pronged war on workers, designed to subsidise profits by suppressing worker bargaining power and keeping businesses well stocked with abundant cheap labour.
Examples of the Coalition’s policy settings include:
- Refusing to lift JobSeeker to a subsistence level, thereby ‘incentivising’ workers to take precarious, low paying jobs;
- Introducing a hotline for employers to dob in unemployed people that refuse to take said low-paying job; and
- Proposing to give employers unbridled access to cheap migrant workers under the guise of ‘skills shortages’.
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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.
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