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Australia – B20 recommends better access to agency work to create jobs

23 July 2014

The International Confederation of Private Employment Agencies (Ciett) has welcomed the B20’s (Business 20) recommendations to the G20, which were launched at the B20 summit in Sydney last week.

The business community is calling for structural reforms to increase flexibility and improve business competition in order to enable growth and job creation.

The B20 recommendations are clustered in four key areas:

  • Flexibility to promote more efficient and productive supply chains, infrastructure and labour markets;
  • Free movement across borders of goods, services, labour, and capital;
  • Consistent and effective regulation to ensure efficient markets;
  • Integrity and credibility in commerce to ensure that corruption does not create perverse incentive.

Ciett particularly welcomes the recognition of the need for business to access a diversity of forms of work; including temporary and part-time work, to react rapidly to market changes and quickly create jobs; It also welcomes the focus on the need to ensure that people have the capability (through education and training), flexibility, adaptability, and mobility to participate fully in the modern workforce. 

Ciett fully endorses the Human Capital task force recommendations as they show the positive correlation between access to agency work and overall levels of employment, as well as the role that agency work plays in reducing undeclared work.

In particular, Ciett welcomes the task force recommendation that calls to identify and remove regulatory barriers to the operation of regulated staffing agencies. This action, it feels, is key to improve labour market efficiency and addressing mismatches between labour demand and supply.

Ciett supports the B20’s call to Governments to remove restrictions on private employment services as a way to help people into employment and to give businesses full access to the talent they need to succeed and to generate growth and jobs.