Penalty rates blame-game: Coalition and Labor pin Sunday pay cut on each other

By Heath Aston, Political Correspondent
Updated February 23 2017 - 11:23pm, first published 8:15pm
Existing fast-food and retail industry workers may lose Sunday penalties but the industry believes more jobs will be created by the Fair Work Commission ruling. Photo: Marina Neil
Existing fast-food and retail industry workers may lose Sunday penalties but the industry believes more jobs will be created by the Fair Work Commission ruling. Photo: Marina Neil

The Fair Work Commission's review of penalty rates was three years in the making but it was clear within minutes of its announcement that lowering Sunday pay was a major new political battleground.

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