Central bank going ‘rogue’, senator claims – as it happened

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Burke says the loophole only applies to where the business has agreed on a minimum rate of pay:

The loopholes are really simple ... which is, if an employer agrees with their workforce and registers, this should be the rate of pay.

You shouldn't then be able to go to a labour hire company and completely undercut what you've just agreed to.

Yesterday was one of the one of the strangest debates I've ever found myself in - because business was running a passionate campaign against a policy that the government is not proposing, that the government's not going to do. And to me, it would sound like a bad idea anyway.

Effectively the way business were arguing yesterday - there was someone on PM yesterday afternoon, claiming that somehow this would prevent hairdressers from being able to pay different rates of pay for the people in their employment. Just not true.