Subscribe to RSS feedNew IR laws could send commercial shipping offshore
The commercial shipping industry could be forced to move offshore if the Federal Government's new industrial relations laws were applied, according to the Australian Shipowners Association (ASA).
In a submission to the Senate's inquiry into Labor's industrial relations regime the ASA said that the application of Australian workplace relations law to foreign-flagged and foreign-manned ships would impose a cost disadvantage on Australian business competing with international ships.
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