PM says,
‘‘Penalty rates are very important to people - very, very important to people. If you are a low-paid worker one of the things that you often love to do is work late-nights, weekends, because it does substantially increase your income.’’
Have you ever heard such rubbish??????
Late nights, shift work, and working weekends has been proven to have toxic and detrimental effects upon workers family units, social lives, relationships, and health. Penalty rates are a compensation for that.
And soon enough, with the removal of such compensation, that's all the workers of this country will be doing it for, just to feel the love......
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