Newly appointed Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth is facing union pressure to intervene in a bid to scrap junior rates for more than half a million workers in the retail, fast-food and pharmacy industries to pay back young workers’ support during the election.
The Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association wrote to the minister on Sunday calling on the Albanese government to back its award application in the Fair Work Commission after claiming that more 18-year-olds voted for Labor this year than any other federal election.
