Relying on penalty rates to make ends meet?

A vote for Dutton is a vote to scrap your penalty rates.

Imagine earning up to $700 less over Easter last weekend, without any penalty rates.

That’s what some of Australia’s biggest and most profitable businesses are demanding: for workers’ penalty rates, break times, shift breaks, hours of work and overtime payments to be scrapped.

The Albanese Government have intervened in support of workers, and have announced that they will legislate to protect penalty rates in awards.

Peter Dutton outrageously called this announcement a “stunt” and has ruled out supporting the legislation.

This is consistent with him previously voting eight times against protecting Sunday and public holiday penalty rates.

If these cuts go through, millions of workers across Australia will face wage cuts – some up to $16,000 per year.

Workers cannot afford to go backwards – and 70% of Australians say that protecting penalty rates is a critical workplace issue.

The Coalition will always put Big Business profits ahead of your wages. Don’t risk Dutton when it comes to your penalty rates.

Don’t risk Dutton on your wages

Real wages have grown more in the last year than they did under nearly ten years of the Coalition Government.

A decade under the Coalition Government saw profits soaring above wage growth.

But new work rights (introduced by the Albanese Government) and three years of decent increases to the minimum wage (backed by the Albanese Government) have delivered pay rises for workers.

Peter Dutton and the Coalition voted against these new rights for workers and Dutton has never advocated for an increase to the minimum wage – this year is no different.

Big Business are demanding that Dutton bring back their wage-cutting schemes if he gets elected. Dutton has promised them he will.

If you can’t afford for wages to go backwards and cost-of-living pressures to go up, don’t risk Dutton.