Stephen Smith (Perth, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Industry, Infrastructure and Industrial Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, isn’t it the case that the Victorian Workplace Rights Advocate actually reported:

And he concluded:

In my view this does not provide employees with the certainty they should expect ... in circumstances where their base rates of pay are being reduced and penalty rates are being reduced and/or abolished.

Why won’t the minister just admit that these employees will be worse off under the government’s wages race to the bottom?

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