Ciett welcomes the B20 recommendations to the G20, launched at the B20 Summit in Sydney on 17-18 July.

The business community in the G20 process is calling for structural reforms to increase flexibility and improve competitiveness of business to enable growth and job creation.

The B20 recommendations are clustered in four key areas:

1. Flexibility to promote more efficient and productive supply chains, infrastructure and labour markets;
2. Free movement across borders of goods, services, labour and capital;
3. Consistent and effective regulation to ensure efficient markets;
4. 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”; as well as the attention devoted to the need to “ensure that people have the capability (through education and training), flexibility, adaptability and mobility to participate fully in the modern workforce”.

This recipe to growth and job creation takes into account the key recommendations of the B20 task force on Human Capital. 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 is key to improve efficiency of labour markets and addressing mismatches between labour demand and supply.

Ciett joins the B20 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.