Turnbull government backs penalty-rate cuts for low paid workers

By James Massola, Michael Gordon
Updated March 25 2017 - 12:23am, first published 12:10am

The Turnbull government has hand-balled responsibility for protecting people facing big pay cuts on Sundays and public holidays to the Fair Work Commission, effectively guaranteeing Labor and the union movement will mount a ferocious industrial relations campaign all the way until the next election.

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