Labor has slammed the NSW Liberal Government\u2019s decision to cut workers\u2019 wages for a second time, after Treasurer Dominic Perrottet announced today that he would cut the public sector wage cap from 2.5% to 1.5%.
\nThe Treasurer refused to consult with workers and their unions and instead announced a wage cut for workers across NSW on Melbourne Cup Day and on the eve of the US presidential election.
\nInstead, 400,000 workers across NSW woke up tomedia reports\u00a0that the NSW Government\u00a0plans to\u00a0cut their wages in the midst of the most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression.
\nNSW Labor Leader Jodi McKay said: \u201cThis morning 400,000 workers in every city, region and town in NSW have woken up to this slap in the face from the Treasurer.
\n\u201cThis cut to workers\u2019 wages is an act of economic vandalism and a betrayal of those who protected us during the bushfires and the pandemic.
\n\u201cNot only is this money that teachers, nurses and cleaners won\u2019t have in their pockets, its money that small businesses and communities across our state won\u2019t have to survive\u201d Ms McKay said.
\nShadow Minister for Industrial Relations Adam Searle said: \u201cIt is clear this has been Dominic Perrottet\u2019s plan all along and he has snuck it out on Melbourne Cup Day and on the eve of the US presidential election.
\n\u201cThis is an insult to every single worker who kept our society going during the pandemic. The Treasurer is trying to ram through another wage cut for workers across our state which will cause even more damage to businesses and communities all across our state.\u201d
\nShadow Treasurer Walt Secord said: \u201cThe Treasurer is picking the pockets of workers to pay for his economic mismanagement.
\n\u201cDominic Perrottet is responsible for $13.5 billion in Budget blow-outs and a secret $4 billion bail-out out of his scandal-ridden iCare and now he wants workers to pay for it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Labor has slammed the NSW Liberal Government\u2019s decision to cut workers\u2019 wages for a second time, after Treasurer Dominic Perrottet announced today that he would cut the public sector wage cap from 2.5% to 1.5%. The Treasurer refused to consult with workers and their unions and instead announced a wage cut for workers across NSW … Continue reading “Labor slams Perrottet's plan to cut workers' wages for the second time”<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174","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=9174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}