Cutting penalty rates was supposed to create jobs. It hasn’t, and here’s why not

No reliable statistical evidence of the effect of penalty rates on employment was presented, either by employers or unions, because no such data had ever been collected.

Of the 151 academic papers the commission referred to in its decision, not one contained sound empirical analysis of the employment impact of penalty rates. It was instead mostly inferred from minimum wage cases.

Evidence-poor policy by AusLiberal government.