Ben Carroll has pushed Jacinta Allan's work from home laws past the November election. They were meant to start on September 1.

Ben Carroll has pushed Victoria's work from home laws past the November election.

The laws were meant to start on September 1. They will now start on July 1 next year, seven months after voters go to the polls.

Debate was scheduled for parliament this week. It has been shelved.

He still expects the bill to pass before the election. He just does not want it to bite before then.

"I want to be very clear, I support work from home," he said on Tuesday. "I support flexible work. It is good for working families."

Then the other half.

"My door will always be open to the business community. That is why I've delayed these changes."

The law gives anyone who can reasonably do their job from home the right to do it two days a week, public or private sector, with disputes going to the state's equal opportunity commission.

It was Jacinta Allan's law.

She launched it at Labor's state conference last August with a line she then repeated for a year: work from home should be a right, not a request.

It was the most popular thing her government did. It was also the thing business hated most, and she wore that on purpose.

The original bill already gave workplaces with fewer than 15 staff until July 2027. Mr Carroll has now put every employer in the state on the small business timetable.

The delay came a day after a dozen business groups signed a joint statement demanding he drop the bill outright.

The Business Council of Australia, the Victorian and Australian chambers of commerce and the Australian Industry Group all signed.

"Victoria cannot afford policies that take the state further backwards," it said.

Business Council chief Bran Black said the bill had come at the worst possible time, with Victoria carrying the highest unemployment rate in the country.

Australian Industry Group state head Tim Piper said it asked business to compete with one arm tied behind its back.

Mr Carroll spoke to Mr Piper and the Victorian Chamber's Sally Curtin on Tuesday morning. He called it a reset.

He has been resetting since the day he got the job.

He took over on July 28 after Ms Allan stood down with the polls sliding and One Nation climbing. His first act was a royal commission into the construction industry.

"Let me make one thing very clear," he said. "I am not Daniel Andrews. I am not Jacinta Allan. I will do things differently."

He was Ms Allan's deputy for the whole of her premiership. Before that he sat in Daniel Andrews' cabinet for five years, running corrections, then roads, then public transport, then industry. Fourteen portfolios in all.

There is nothing this government did in a decade that he was not in the room for.

The election is in November. The law he has just delayed was the one Labor was going to run on.