Changes to the government's workplace laws overhaul will be put up for debate when federal parliament sits.
Key amendments to the industrial relations bill will be introduced to the House of Representatives, following talks between the government, businesses and unions.
Some have already been flagged, including employers needing a majority of support from employees for a single-interest bargaining authorisation.
But Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke conceded there will be more to come, particularly after a Senate report comes out on November 17.
Other proposed amendments include businesses and workers not being compelled into single-interest employer agreements, when they have agreed to bargain for a single-enterprise agreement, and companies having 12 months to adjust to changes to fixed-term contracts.
Mr Burke did not accept that the slew of amendments showed the government had rushed the sweeping legislation.
The government wants to pass the laws, which would allow for multi-employer bargaining, by the end of the year, but critical crossbenchers have questioned elements of the bill.
"I don't think we could get to the point where a government listening and acting constructively like that is seen as a weakness," Mr Burke told ABC Radio on Tuesday.
"After a Senate inquiry process, you always end up with amendments ... so I suspect there'll be more to come. If it was the previous government, there'd be times where they just ... refused to accept any amendments, refused to have any consultation."
Independent senator David Pocock said it was good to see the government addressing concerns with the bill, but wanted the supported and co-operative multi-enterprise bargaining streams carved out of the bill.
"I want to get wages moving for as many Australians as possible ... we didn't say we're only going to get wages moving for this person or that person" Mr Burke said.
Independent MP Allegra Spender echoed Senator Pocock's calls to split the bill and pass wage rises for low-paid workers before Christmas.
"(But) the multi-sector employer bargaining, and particularly the piece where it's forced bargaining by businesses that have never been forced into multi-employer bargains before, we should take a really big pause on that and look at the legislation in detail," she told ABC Radio.
Master Builders CEO Denita Wawn said the bill was "highly-rushed".
"There is so much in it that is fundamentally flawed that we think a pause is required to seriously look at it clause by clause," she told the ABC.
ACTU secretary Sally McManus moved to assure small businesses they would not feel any impact of the proposed changes.
"Small business is cut out of the multi-employer bargaining stream ... we have never bargained in small business ... we didn't when we had 60 per cent union membership, we have 14 per cent union membership," she told Channel Nine.
"There is a scare campaign out there by big business because they are the ones that don't want to give people pay rises."
Manager of opposition business Paul Fletcher criticised the government for shutting down a proposal on Monday for a joint committee to examine the legislation.
"It's clear the Albanese government doesn't want Australians knowing that this sweeping industrial relations bill will result in more strikes, unions marching into small businesses and a recipe for chaos in our economy," he said.
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