Dr. Dermot Coates:

It is a reasonable observation that, against the backdrop of a labour market that is outperforming and certainly performing more strongly than we might have thought in the midst of Covid-19, for employers who behave in the way the Senator describes, it may seem like an immediate-term fix but they risk doing their own businesses medium- to long-term damage. A firm developing a reputation for treating its employees in that particular way will ultimately, against the backdrop of a labour market that is so tight, find that this makes recruitment more difficult in the future.