Malcolm Turnbull’s claim that a reduction in penalty rates creates jobs is a notion that has been tried before in Western Australia. It didn’t workThe Turnbull government and its modern industrial relations minister Michaelia Cash need look no further than Western Australia to examine what happens when workers lose penalty rates. The Turnbull government believes the abolition of penalty rates will create more jobs. The prime minister believes we live in a seven-day economy,that Sunday is the same as Wednesday.
Western Australian workers own heard all this before, when in 1993, and the Court Liberal government introduced the Workplace Agreements Act under the mantra of “jobs and choices.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com