Xenophon says productivity commission research and evidence to a federal Senate select joint committee indicates up to 90% of gambling addicts "do not get any help".
And in a significant departure for the unions, the accord envisions an additional 1percentt increase in the third year of the contract if a newly formed committee on productivity, composed of members of the Bloomberg administration and the union, agree on specific productivity savings.
At the same time, the committee said, productivity improvements have been "containing costs and holding down underlying price pressures".
Some studies have found that plants with such committees have higher productivity and wages than factories without them, which is why both workers and management might want them.
Hiring and tenure committees regularly assess productivity of scientists.
Increased workloads partly to blame Dr Alan Swann of Imperial College London, chair of the higher education occupational physicians committee, blamed "demands for increased product and productivity" for rising levels of mental health problems among academics.
Speaking at the House of Common's business, innovation and skills select committee, the business secretary said productivity had to improve.
Jobs have not followed growth, the committee wrote, because of increases in workers' productivity.
According to the October minutes, members of the policy-making committee argued that the rapid rise in productivity over the last year would curb job creation and might even drive inflation lower than it already was.
"Productivity will be absolutely critical to the outcome of the committee's November decision," he said.
Eventually, Breyer became Kennedy's chief counsel on the committee, and under their direction it achieved considerable productivity and ideological harmony.
