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Xenophon backflip on penalty rates means bill to stop cuts will pass Senate

 

The Nick Xenophon Team will now support a bill to prevent penalty rate cuts, ensuring it will pass the Senate but likely still fail in the lower house due the government’s slim majority.


Labor has welcomed the political backflip and said the government is now isolated in opposing efforts to reverse penalty rate cuts.


On Tuesday Labor passed an urgency motion in the Senate condemning Malcolm Turnbull’s “lack of empathy for Australian workers who rely on penalty rates to make ends meet”.


The motion passed with the Greens, One Nation, NXT, Derryn Hinch and Jacqui Lambie’s support.


Nick Xenophon has confirmed to Guardian Australia he will now support the Labor, Greens and Lambie bill to block the current round of penalty rate cuts and prevent future cuts by the Fair Work Commission that reduce take-home pay.


In comments explaining the backflip in the Adelaide Advertiser, Xenophon said: “The bottom line is none of us want to see workers have their pay cut in an environment when there’s low wage growth and an increasing number of people are under wage stress.”


“I’ll own up to this being a backflip, or even somersault, because you can’t have individual workers being worse off.”

 

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...ass-senate

 

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