Archive for 'Productivity Commission'
Cutting penalty rates – a summary in all their richness
Posted by John, December 23rd, 2015 - under Penalty rates, Productivity Commission, Ruling class.
Comments: 5
The Productivity Commission: Men on $400,000 a year telling women on $40,000 that penalty rates are bad. Liberal and National Party politicians on from $200,000 to $550,000 supporting the Productivity Commission. Men or women earning more than $400 billion from Australia and paying no tax supporting and pushing for these cuts in pay to women and men on $40,000 or less.
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The attack on penalty rates
Posted by John, February 26th, 2015 - under minimum wages, Penalty rates, Productivity Commission, The minimum wage.
Tags: Eric Abetz
Comments: 5
Alex McAuley in Red Flag discuses the attempts of the government and the bosses to further cut, or even abolish, penalty rates. This drive won’t go away despite the ongoing crises in the Abbott government seeing the Employment Minister, Senator Abetz, divorce the government from the Productivity Committee inquiry and from implementing any recommendations about either penalty rates or the minimum wage before or after the 2016 election. They know as well as anyone that embracing cuts to the minimum wage and penalty rates would destroy completely their very slim chances of re-election. If, god forbid, they were re-elected they could then change their minds and implement the recommendations to cut the minimum wage and get rid of penalty rates. A government saying one thing before an election and doing something different after. Hard to believe eh?