“Today’s transitional arrangements decision by the Fair Work Commission has confirmed the worst fears of workers – penalty rates cuts on Sundays and public holidays will start on 1 July 2017,” he said. One Nation and independent senator Jacqui Lambie have also called for bans to future cuts to penalty rates. Adam Bandt, the Greens’ workplace relations spokesman, said the decision to phase-in penalty rate cuts was devastating for low-paid workers. “With profits up a massive 40% this year but wages only 0.9%, it beggars belief that business says it can’t afford to pay penalty rates,” he said. “A Greens/Labor bill to protect penalty rates passed the Senate in March.

Source: The Guardian June 05, 2017 06:12 UTC