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Features Australia

Business/Robbery etc

9 March 2017

3:00 PM

9 March 2017

3:00 PM

It’s a no-brainer. Both economically and politically, only time will tell whether cutting penalty rates will create enough new jobs to offset reductions in the pay packets of thousands of lower-paid workers. So the only real option for the drifting Turnbull government is immediately to implement the Fair Work Commission’s recommended cuts that still leave some penalties as high as 225 per cent of standard hourly rates.

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