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'Same job, same pay' laws unlikely in Labor's first term

Labor's 'same job, same pay' proposal would be "extremely complicated" to legislate, and is highly unlikely to roll out in the Government's first term, according to a former Fair Work Commission deputy president.

"I think it's going to be pushed off to a second term proposition, if at all", Peter Sams told a roundtable hosted yesterday by law firm Kingston Reid.

Limiting fixed-term contracts to 24 months is another "tricky" proposal that Sams suggests will not be part of the Government's first order of business.

Even with topics to be discussed at next month's Jobs Summit ahead of a whitepaper outlining its key issues, "we're not looking at any major changes until 2024", he says...