Truck owner-drivers could gain minimum pay rates under Labor's closing loopholes bill

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Labor claims it has won support to revive minimum conditions in the road transport industry and will push to make further changes to pay deal bargaining, the workplace relations minister, Tony Burke, has revealed.

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04 Sep 2023

With employer backlash brewing over the closing loophole bill’s same job same pay provisions, Labor has opened up new fronts by revealing truck owner-drivers could be awarded minimum rates of pay by the industrial umpire, restoring protections controversially repealed by the Coalition.

The road safety remuneration tribunal (RSRT) was repealed ahead of the 2016 election amid claims backed by the then employment minister, Michaelia Cash, that setting minimum charge-out rates for independent contractors had driven them to financial hardship and even suicide.

On Monday Burke, introduced the bill to the House of Representatives, arguing it is needed “to close loopholes that have undercut secure jobs, better pay and safe workplaces”.

The bill would allow: the Fair Work Commission to make enterprise agreement model terms; franchisees to