FactCheck: will 700,000 workers be 'ripped off' by penalty rate cuts, as Bill Shorten said?
- Written by Joshua Healy, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Workplace Leadership, University of Melbourne
Malcolm Turnbull’s cuts to penalty rates will rip off 700,000 workers… – Labor leader Bill Shorten, in a Labor-produced recorded phone call to voters released in March 2017.
The Fair Work Commission recently held a new round of deliberations on how to implement its recommendation that Sunday and public holiday penalty rates be...