Remove crippling regulations that benefit those with jobs at the expense of those without jobs and that cause involuntary unemployment
Repeal the Employment Relations Act 2001
Abolish the specialist Employment Court which has been an abject failure, and all other specialist employment authorities, tribunals and courts
Restore the common law freedom of contract between employers and employees
Restore common law freedoms of association and of speech in hiring labour and in communicating with staff

Support workers' calls for fair wages, including the campaign for a 5% increase in 2005
Support legislation that creates flexible workplace opportunities, and assist parents to balance work and family life
Improve workplace democracy and improve workers’ representation and participation in the future of their work
Initiatives that encourage and facilitate multi-party bargaining
Introduce legislation to progress pay and employment equity

Labour will amend the Employment Relations Act to provide greater statutory support for multi-employer collective bargaining
Labour will ensure that only union members can obtain the benefits of union-negotiated agreements
Labour will guarantee annual adjustments to the minimum wage during the next term of government, so that the minimum wage at least keeps pace with increases in the average wage or the consumer price index, whichever is the greater
Labour will ensure that workers employed in precarious forms of employment (such as labour hire, casual employment and contracting) are given similar rights to those in more traditional forms of employment

[Introduce] a time-limited package of assistance for people who have been made redundant and who have been in the same job for at least six months

Raise the minimum and youth wage
Establish an Industrial Relations Advisory Group
Amend industrial laws to ensure that casualisation employment practices are fair and just to all parties
Review the practice of short term employment contracts
Amend the EEO laws to ensure that ending discrimination of those 50-years plus is established as a fundamental plank of these laws

Improve workplace literacy
Review general grievance and dismissal procedures in the Employment Relations Act
Review employment law to ensure that it reflects the reality of workplace relations in small businesses
Ensure that advice and information is available to businesses to support them in hiring migrants to fill skill shortages