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ACCI Stands For:
Enabling all Australians to be
active in the employment market

Through an employment system that provides people
with marketable skills, a training system that keeps pace
with the skill needs of business & fosters a commitment
to work & life-long learning

Overarching Policy Objectives:

  • An economic framework that encourages per capita growth
  • Employers being able to offer  more job opportunities
  • The unemployed having the required skills to take up employment opportunities
    when they arise

Policy Objectives:

Strong rates of economic growth driven by:
  • Containing public sector spending
  • Avoiding deficit financing to stimulate growth
  • Continuous assessment of the impact of interest rate and monetary aggregate adjustments
    on growth and employment
Introducing wider microeconomic reforms including:
  • Structural changes to improve the adjustment capabilities of the economy, which enables
    labour to move more easily between contractions and expansions
  • Reforms to competition laws, the financial system, industry policy and the industrial
    relations system to enable resources to flow as quickly as possible to where they are best
    employed
Stimulating productivity growth while containing the cost of labour by:
  • Raising productivity and ensuring growth in the cost of labour does not exceed productivity
    growth
  • Allowing relative wages to adjust to reflect labour market needs
  • Restraining minimum wages to minimise the number of people who are locked out of the
    labour market
Amending the taxation & social security system so that it encourages work  by:
  • Encouraging people to work when job opportunities become available
  • Eliminating poverty traps
  • Embracing the approach of mutual obligation
Continuously developing labour force skills & knowledge including:
  • Expanding education, training and employment pathways
  • Improving education and training as a demand-driven system based on needs which
    are specifically aligned to industry
  • Enhancing schools-industry initiatives
  • Promoting awareness of the labour market and the world of work, particularly to young
    people
  • Reducing the points of regulation in the States and Territories
  • Implementing mutual recognition of nationally recognised qualifications and training
    providers
  • Focussing on nationally endorsed training packages which comprise competency standards,
    assessment and qualifications linked to a national framework
  • Targeting areas where skills shortages prevail
Designing labour market programs to meet individual needs by:
  • Using active labour market policies such as job creation initiatives, job placement schemes,
    employer incentives and training programs as support for macro level reforms which lead to
    improved growth and a more efficient economy
  • Using direct and simple labour market policies such as wage subsidies for employers
Increasing co-operation between federal & state agencies by:
  • Eliminating duplication of effort within and across regions, states and nationally, particularly
    in relation to consultative arrangements
  • Minimising bureaucratic intervention and reducing the pressure on employer resources
  • Removing inconsistencies in employment policy between States and Territories
  • Developing proactive coordinated mechanisms with the involvement of employer organisations
    and employers to address the issues relating to federal and state government programs and
    seminars impacting on business