Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm has advocated scrapping weekend penalty rates but retaining higher wages for public holidays a…
Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm has advocated scrapping weekend penalty rates but retaining higher wages for public holidays a…
The small business community has backed the Treasurer’s call for a “mature discussion” around any potential reduction in Sunday pen…
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has given the strongest indication yet that his government is willing to slash Sunday penalty rates. Spea…
Extra public holidays hit SMEs in the professional services industry particularly hard during the past week, according to one small busin…
Australia’s new employment minister and minister for women, Michaelia Cash says she welcomes a debate about penalty rates but the Turnbull…
Small businesses with a national presence will have to navigate a raft of public holidays this week, costing them millions of dollars in …
The CEO of a tyre franchise business has welcomed resources minister Josh Frydenberg’s declaration that the federal government intends …
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull emerged victorious from his leadership coup promising to put the economy on the right track. The former c…
Three quarters of small to medium sized Victorian businesses say they will close if an AFL grand final public holiday goes ahead, a surve…
The inconvenient truth of the penalty rates debate is that, far from being destroyed by penalty rates as employers and right-wing lobby…
The Productivity Commission has backed a cut in penalty rates on Sundays, a two-tier rate system and a restructure of the Fair Work Commi…
Franchises and small businesses have good reason to fear the unions coming after them in the wake of the controversy surrounding Grill’…
