Tony Shepherd is chairman of Venues NSW and former president of the Business Council of Australia.
I have known and worked with the new Premier and his deputy, and they are grounded people who fight for what they believe in.
The private sector provides 90 per cent of jobs in NSW. I am not aware of any offering across-the-board pay rises. In many businesses, there are pay cuts.
For the next six months employers' compulsory 9.5 per cent superannuation contributions should go into workers' pay packets.