WORKPLACE Relations Minister Bill Shorten will today offer limited relief to business by announcing changes to the nation's unfair dismissal laws but more significant industrial relations reforms are likely to be delayed until next year.

Australian Mines and Metals Association chief executive Steve Knott criticised the delay in implementing changes.

''Employers are concerned the government has moved at a snail's pace to implement reforms to address some of the more economically damaging problems, yet has been able to move faster than Usain Bolt to address political IR issues such as interfering in the Queensland state government's capacity to run their own workforces or the introduction of slightly less ineffective registered organised rules,'' he said.

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