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Labor wants to restore penalty rates within 100 days. But what about the independent umpire?

  • Written by Anthony Forsyth, Professor of Workplace Law, RMIT University

This article is part of an election series on wages, industrial relations, Labor and the union movement ahead of the 2019 federal election. You can read other pieces in the series here, here and here.


Labor has promised to restore the penalty rates cut by the Fair Work Commission in its first 100 days.

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