{"id":2424,"date":"2019-04-22T02:37:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T02:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2019-04-22T02:37:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T02:37:43","slug":"morrisons-penalty-rate-cuts-leave-australian-workers-thousands-of-dollars-worse-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/04\/22\/morrisons-penalty-rate-cuts-leave-australian-workers-thousands-of-dollars-worse-off\/","title":{"rendered":"MORRISON&#039;S PENALTY RATE CUTS LEAVE AUSTRALIAN WORKERS THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WORSE OFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Scott Morrison and the Liberals are elected on 18 May, cuts to penalty rates will leave workers up to $26,000 worse off.<br \/>\nCuts since 2017 have left low paid Australian workers under the retail, hospitality, fast food, restaurant and pharmacy awards thousands of dollars worse off.<br \/>\nA pharmacy worker will lose up to $7,000 next year (2019-20) and up to $26,000 over the next three years.<br \/>\nWhen everything is going up except people\u2019s wages, the last thing that workers need is another cut to their take-home pay.<br \/>\n<strong>Scott Morrison voted in support of the penalty rate cuts eight times.<\/strong><br \/>\nJust imagine how much further these cuts could spread if the Liberals are re-elected.<br \/>\nIt says everything you need to know about the Liberals that they\u2019re cutting workers\u2019 wages but giving millionaires an $11,000 a year tax cut.<br \/>\nPenalty rates are not a luxury \u2013 they help people put food on the table and petrol in the car.\u00a0 They can be the difference in paying the electricity bill, health costs or child care costs \u2013 all of which keep soaring under this government.<br \/>\nLabor understands how important penalty rates are to working Australians.<br \/>\nIf elected, we will legislate to reverse the cuts to penalty rates in our first 100 days.<br \/>\nAnd we\u00a0will change the law to\u00a0make sure they can\u2019t be cut for anyone again.<br \/>\nOnly Labor has a plan to make the economy work for all Australians. We are prioritising better wages, cost-of-living relief and reversing Scott Morrison\u2019s cuts to services Australians rely on, including schools and hospitals.<br \/>\nIn addition to reversing cuts to penalty rates, Labor will protect Australians from unfair labour hire practices, so that workers doing the same job get the same pay, and we will act on insecure work and unfair working conditions.<br \/>\nThis election is a choice between Labor\u2019s plan to restore penalty rates, or bigger tax loopholes for the top end of town under the Liberals.<br \/>\nAfter six years of Liberal cuts and chaos, our united Labor team is ready to deliver a fair go for all Australians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Scott Morrison and the Liberals are elected on 18 May, cuts to penalty rates will leave workers up to $26,000 worse off. Cuts since 2017 have left low paid Australian workers under the retail, hospitality, fast food, restaurant and pharmacy awards thousands of dollars worse off. A pharmacy worker will lose up to $7,000 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/04\/22\/morrisons-penalty-rate-cuts-leave-australian-workers-thousands-of-dollars-worse-off\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MORRISON&#039;S PENALTY RATE CUTS LEAVE AUSTRALIAN WORKERS THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WORSE OFF&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}