‘De facto wages cap by stealth’: NSW Greens seek to change Labor’s workplace bill

Labor’s plan would restore sweeping powers to the Industrial Relations Commission, including giving it the ability to act like a court

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The New South Wales government has been accused of imposing a “de facto wages cap by stealth” as it seeks to rush through industrial relations legislation during parliament’s final sitting week of the year.

Labor’s plan would restore sweeping powers to the Industrial Relations Commission, including the ability to act like a court, which the former Coalition government removed in 2011.

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