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Unions support huge wage cut

The ACTU portable leave scheme would ask 2.5 million workers to accept a quarter less take-home pay while crippling business with a 15 per cent levy.

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The union movement’s support for a national portable leave scheme for casual workers is in effect support for a huge pay cut for more than 2 million workers.

No additional cost to business: ACTU secretary Sally McManus says that employees would lose the casual loading. Joshua Morris

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Innes Willox is chief executive of the Australian Industry Group.
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