What does 2025 hold – change, change and more change, fiscal restraint and restructures?

What does 2025 hold – change, change and more change, fiscal restraint and restructures?
Next year employment law changes the Government is enacting will be put to the test. (Image: Getty)
Bronwyn Heenan
In my November 2023 BusinessDesk column I wrote that 2024 was going to be the year of the restructure. That has certainly proven true. I have now been turning my mind to consider what 2025 might hold in store in the employment and health and safety space.In addition to 2024 being the year of the restructure, it was also the year that the coalition Government led by the Workplace Relations and Safety Minister, Brooke van Velden, announced a significant raft of changes to employment law and health and safety.Gloomy outlook continuesThe Treasury o...

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