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Can your boss cut your pay or conditions without asking you? How does coronavirus affect workplace rights? – ABC News
Can your boss freeze your pay, cut your hours or make you take leave? Do they need to get your agreement to do it? We look at staff cost-cutting, coronavirus style.
More than a million Australians are officially unemployed, and the number would probably be at least twice that without government supports such as JobKeeper.
Key points:
- Your boss is very unlikely to be legally allowed to unilaterally cut your hourly pay rate
- Employers can generally inform their workers that some of them may lose their jobs if they don’t agree to lower pay, or other cost-cutting
- Special temporary laws attached to JobKeeper mean that many employers are …
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