casual workers, employment law, Industrial Relations, workplace reform
Q. The Federal Government has announced new workplace reforms requiring employers to offer permanent employment to casual workers who have been with the same employer for a year and have had regular shifts for six months during that time.
Do you expect these changes to industrial relations laws will be good or bad for the following?
| TOTAL:
Very good / Quite good |
Neither good nor bad | TOTAL:
Very bad / Quite bad |
Don’t know | |
| Big businesses | 41% | 34% | 12% | 14% |
| Small businesses | 35% | 33% | 19% | 12% |
| Employees | 48% | 24% | 17% | 12% |
| People looking for work | 39% | 28% | 20% | 13% |
| People in casual work | 51% | 20% | 17% | 12% |
| TOTAL: Very good / Quite good | Total | Federal Voting Intention | |||
| Labor | TOTAL: Coalition | Greens | TOTAL: Other | ||
| Big businesses | 41% | 44% | 42% | 41% | 44% |
| Small businesses | 35% | 40% | 39% | 30% | 34% |
| Employees | 48% | 43% | 57% | 49% | 48% |
| People looking for work | 39% | 39% | 42% | 37% | 37% |
| People in casual work | 51% | 44% | 42% | 41% | 44% |