The ink might still be drying on one batch of industrial relations reforms, but the Labor government is already gearing up for round two.
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Anthony Albanese has signalled there is more to come after passing contentious multi-employer bargaining laws.
The prime minister says the second tranche will close loopholes that undermine job security and wage growth.
Speaking after parliament passed the reforms, ACTU president Michele O'Neil reminded the government there was plenty more left to do.
"We look forward to the Albanese government delivering on its commitments to regulate the gig economy, end rorting of labour hire and casual employment and end systemic wage theft," she said.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has previously touched on loopholes that need to be addressed.
"We have the new loopholes that have turned up with sham contracting and certainly with the gig economy, where people who have none of the power that would be associated with someone running their own small business appear in the statistics as small business people," he told the National Press Club last month.
"So when you say: has the rate of casualisation changed? No, not a lot. Has the story of job security in Australia changed? It really has."
No timeline has been set for the second tranche, but Mr Burke has previously called for urgency.
"You don't get a pay rise the next day when this leg goes through, there's a lag," he said.
"It makes it even more urgent because if people are facing the sorts of pressures we know they're facing now we have to do everything we can to be able to get their wages moving soon."
Australian Associated Press
