Last modified on Mon 8 Feb 2021 19.13 EST
The Coalition’s industrial relations bill would punch a hole in the award safety net by allowing pay deals that leave workers worse off, academics have warned.
Despite the Morrison government claiming the omnibus bill does not facilitate pay cuts, a group of independent labour law academics has contradicted that claim in a submission to the Senate inquiry.
The group includes Adelaide law school’s Andrew Stewart, the University of Sydney’s Shae McCrystal and UTS’s Joellen Riley Munton.
Since its release in December, the bill’s most controversial provision has been a change to allow businesses to strike workplace deals that pay below award minimums if the Fair Work Commission believes it is “appropriate” in the circumstances.
âI feel helplessâ: Delivery driver sacked after protesting a pay cut
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A Chinese food-focused rival to Uber Eats has made unilateral cuts to its workersâ pay and booted a delivery driver off its platform after he launched a small strike in protest, leaving him without an income.
In a message to riders obtained by
The Sydney Morning Herald and
The Age, HungryPanda this week issued new pay rules, adding to reduced rates if drivers do not wear a uniform and a direction riders must work for other companies in an apparent effort to claim their delivery riders arenât employees.