Employing Qld
Liberal National Party
Getting Queensland back in business
• Raise Payroll Tax threshold to $25,000 over 10 years
• Raise threshold from 1.1 to 1.35 over 10 years
• Businesses with payrolls up to $6.75 million get a deduction
• Create 500,000 jobs
One Nation Party
Policy Handbook: Economic Development
• 5-year temporary ban on Payroll Tax for all new, innovative, start-up businesses employing up to 40 people established after 2017.
• Conditions include the business must be new to area and will not cannibalize existing business or markets.
The Greens Party
Qld State Policies – Tax and Rev
• Abolish Payroll Tax
Commitments CCIQ would like to see from candidates:
Commit to lifting the payroll tax threshold from $1.1 million to $1.5 million to create more than 2,000 jobs in the private sector.
Commit to progressively lifting the threshold by increments of $100,000 to $2 million over the 5 years following, at which time payroll tax should be completely abolished.
Commit to not introducing any new taxes or charges for business in Queensland
Liberal National Party
Getting Queensland back in business
• Reduce red tape by 20% over 6 years by:
-Measure the regulatory burden and establish a baseline to map progress against each target
-Appoint an industry representative to drive regulatory reform
-Set red tape reduction performance targets for Ministers and department heads
-Have an annual Red Tape Repeal Day set aside every year in Parliament for slashing bureaucracy
One Nation Party
Policy Handbook: Economic Development
• Encourage new industries to set up in Queensland through reducing red and green tape.
• Provide guidance to fast track establishment of business and direct access to government agencies to assist.
Katter's Australian Party
Rural Pubs and Clubs
• New discount licensing framework for pubs in remote areas who will only have to pay 10% of the current licence fee
Commitments CCIQ would like to see from candidates:
Set targets within each department to reduce red tape by 10% every year.
Set a ‘one on, two off’ policy by repealing two policies and replacing with one efficient streamlined policy.
Enforcing regular reporting by Directors and Ministers of Departments on progress of red tape reduction.
Make information on regulatory obligations and proposed legislation more open, accessible and easier to understand.
Reduce delays on approvals.
Tender for share of $300 million of Federal funds to reduce red tape for small businesses.
Australian Labor Party
Skilling Qlders 4 work
• Skilling Queenslanders for Work program will be boosted by an additional $180 million over three years totalling $420 million by 2020-21.
• Work Skills Traineeships funding to community organisations and local councils.
• Get Set for Work funding for community organisations to provide disengaged young people aged 15 to 19 years with nationally recognised training.
• Ready for Work funding for community organisations and school P& to deliver basic job preparation and employability skills over six to eight weeks to unemployed youth aged 15 to 24 years.
• Youth Skills funding for community organisations to assist 15 to 24-year olds engaged with Youth Justice Services and Queensland Corrective Services with nationally-recognised training.
• Work Start providing a one-off financial incentive of $10,000 to eligible private sector employers (includes group training organisations and non-government organisations) who offer a traineeship or apprenticeship to individuals who have participated in previous government programs.
• A Youth Boost component of $20,000 is available if the former Skilling Queenslanders for Work participant is aged 15 to 24 years.
• First Start providing wage subsidies to local councils and not-for-profit community based organisations to employ additional trainees.
Back to Work
• $155M extension to the program for 2 years in Regional Queensland.
• Implement the Sticking Together Program, where recently employed young people are intensively coached and mentored over a 60-week period.
Tourism
• Extending the Young Tourism Leaders Program for three more years.
Queensland Made
• Assist workers to develop new skills to find secure employment in the manufacturing sector through the Queensland Workers Transition Scheme and Regional Skills Adjustment Strategy.
• Expand placements and increase industry collaboration under the manufacturing and engineering Gateway to Industry Schools Program
• Continue the $200 million Jobs and Regional Growth Fund package to deliver jobs
TAFE
• $90 million commit to revitalise TAFE Queensland over three years.
• $85M to redevelop and refurbish Townsville, Cairns, Mount Gravatt, Toowoomba, Redland and Gold Coast TAFE campuses
• $4 million for a new plumbing and fire safety training facility at Beenleigh with capacity for 700 trainees and apprentices
Liberal National Party
Getting Queensland back in business
• $5,000 Queensland Apprenticeship incentive for small businesses
• $500 Tools for Tradies vouchers
• $4,000 Job Start Incentive bonus for businesses that train and retain a young Queenslander for at least 12 months.
• Discounts on Work Cover premiums for small business.
Services, Science and Technology
• $3 million in grants of up to $100,000 to create STEM academies in schools
• $500,000 Best and Brightest Fund to provide assistance to state school students to help compete in interstate and international competitions promoting STEM projects
Construction Manufacturing
• $100 million to support 20,000 young Queenslanders into work as part of the Plan to Get Queensland Working for businesses to take on more apprentices and lower their operating costs
• Refocusing the State Assessment Referral Agency (SARA)
Generational Job Match
• Invest $5.25 million to provide greater incentives that address skills shortages on the Queensland Skills Shortage List.
• Partnering with industry to improve training completion rates with a $5 million training co-investment fund.
• Establishing a standing Industry Training Best Practice Council to work with the Commonwealth Government, improve training standards and ensure that course development is in-line with modern industry needs and expectations.
Pledge to invest $1 million to support the new Council, which will:
- Improve training quality and development by ensuring that industry has a seat at the table
- Increase apprenticeship take-up and completion rates through a trial of a common first year training,
- Establish a RPL (recognition of prior learning) industry standard that recognises previous skills for mature-age workers changing careers or upskilling.
• Revitalising Skilling Queenslanders for Work to provide a greater link with upskilling for employment needs
• Ensuring TAFE is focused on modern forms of engagement and course delivery methods.
One Nation Party
Policy Handbook: Economic Development
• Fund apprentice scheme for businesses for essential services, including hotel and catering
Commitments CCIQ would like to see from candidates:
De-risk businesses when they take on apprentices and/ or trainees through providing more attractive incentives, reducing the amount of red tape associated with taking on an apprentice/trainee, and providing more support programs for employers taking on apprentices and trainees.
Commit to tangible funding incentives to address unemployment, particularly youth unemployment in the regions.
Re-introduce the Queensland Apprenticeship Pledge.