1 year ago
SCOTT MORRISON SHARPENS THE KNIFE TO SLASH WORKERS’ PAY
TONY BURKE MP
Australian workers face cuts to their pay and conditions under a re-elected Liberal Government after Scott Morrison confirmed plans to resurrect his extreme workplace laws if he wins.
Mr Morrison is sharpening his knife to slash your pay and conditions.
At a time when the price of everything has gone up and your pay has gone backwards, Mr Morrison now wants to cut your pay even further and make your job less secure.
He simply cannot be trusted with workers’ pay and conditions. Keeping wages low is Mr Morrison’s policy.
Under these changes:
Mr Morrison is sharpening his knife to slash your pay and conditions.
At a time when the price of everything has gone up and your pay has gone backwards, Mr Morrison now wants to cut your pay even further and make your job less secure.
He simply cannot be trusted with workers’ pay and conditions. Keeping wages low is Mr Morrison’s policy.
Under these changes:
- Retail store managers who work all night could cop a $10,000 a year pay cut.
- A part-time disability care employee working a Friday to Sunday shift could lose more than $14,000 a year from their take-home pay.
- A part-time car parking attendant working only three days a week, including Saturdays and Sundays, could lose more than $13,000 a year from their take-home pay.
- A butcher working part-time, Thursday to Sunday, could lose nearly $7,000 a year from their take-home pay.
These figures come from the Government’s own online fair pay calculator.
By scrapping the Better Off Overall Test Mr Morrison’s laws will allow for agreements that cut the pay and conditions of workers.
If they abolish something called the “Better Off Overall Test”, guess what will happen? You will be worse off.
If he succeeds everything from shift allowances to penalty rates is on the chopping block.
The cleaners, the retail workers, the truck drivers, the childcare workers and the aged care workers who got us through the pandemic will all lose under Mr Morrison’s nasty scheme.
Now he’s confirmed that’s exactly what he intends to do if he’s returned to power on May 21.
Mr Morrison’s radical laws would also make part-time work even less secure.
The one change Scott Morrison and Pauline Hanson did get through the Parliament last year has already made job security worse.
The change to casual employment means an employer can call any worker a casual even if they work like a permanent worker, giving a green light to more casualisation of permanent jobs.
We know the Liberals can't help themselves when it comes to attacking your pay and conditions.
Cutting your pay and conditions is who the Liberals are.
Anthony Albanese and Labor have a positive plan to deliver secure jobs, better pay and fairer workplaces.
By scrapping the Better Off Overall Test Mr Morrison’s laws will allow for agreements that cut the pay and conditions of workers.
If they abolish something called the “Better Off Overall Test”, guess what will happen? You will be worse off.
If he succeeds everything from shift allowances to penalty rates is on the chopping block.
The cleaners, the retail workers, the truck drivers, the childcare workers and the aged care workers who got us through the pandemic will all lose under Mr Morrison’s nasty scheme.
Now he’s confirmed that’s exactly what he intends to do if he’s returned to power on May 21.
Mr Morrison’s radical laws would also make part-time work even less secure.
The one change Scott Morrison and Pauline Hanson did get through the Parliament last year has already made job security worse.
The change to casual employment means an employer can call any worker a casual even if they work like a permanent worker, giving a green light to more casualisation of permanent jobs.
We know the Liberals can't help themselves when it comes to attacking your pay and conditions.
Cutting your pay and conditions is who the Liberals are.
Anthony Albanese and Labor have a positive plan to deliver secure jobs, better pay and fairer workplaces.