The retail industry has, at best, six months to address wage and entitlement issues if it is to avoid or at least moderate tighter federal workplace laws. It may already be too late for the retail industry to influence looming legislative changes but serious and substantial efforts will be needed to temper the political will of Bill Shorten’s Labor Party. It is virtually impossible to see how the fractured Coalition government can win the federal election that must be held by May 2019. Sh
