TIME FOR TURNBULL TO LISTEN – CUTTING PENALTY RATES WON’T CREATE JOBS

Malcolm Turnbull and his Liberals must stop ignoring the evidence of the negative impact of cuts to penalty rates and support Labor’s Private members Bill to stop the cuts.  

The decision of the restaurant and cafe industry, represented by the employer group Restaurant and Catering Industrial, yesterday to drop its penalty rates case because there is insufficient evidence that cutting penalty rates would create jobs –  is a slap in the face for Malcolm Turnbull.

Malcolm Turnbull now must retract his unfounded claim that cuts to penalty rates will create “hundreds of thousands of jobs”. How out of touch can he get?

 Malcolm Turnbull and the Liberals own these cuts. They are responsible for the impact these cuts will have on Australian families.

Malcolm Turnbull’s support for cuts to penalty rates shows how out of touch he is with the lives of middle and working class people. He just doesn’t understand how much these cuts will hurt families struggling with the cost of living.

While Malcolm Turnbull cuts penalty rates for Australian workers, he is giving millionaires a $16,400 tax cut and spending $65 billion on a tax handout to the big banks and multinational corporations.

Australians needs a pay rise, not a pay cut.

Bill Shorten and Labor will make different choices than Turnbull’s out of touch Liberals. 
 
 We will reverse Turnbull’s tax cuts for millionaires and multinationals, and restore penalty rates in our first 100 days of government.