Business calls for return to flexible contracts

A leading employer group will today urge Labor to allow companies and workers to strike more flexible workplace deals, while releasing research showing strong business support for the return of individual contracts.

Heather Ridout, chief executive of the Australian Industry Group, said that the Gillard Government's system of individual flexibility arrangements should be overhauled as it had "promised so much but delivered so little".

The call by Ms Ridout, regarded as a moderate employer voice on workplace relations, will increase pressure on the Government to implement changes to the Fair Work Act after it is reviewed from January next year, reports The Australian.

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