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Fair Pay Commission to put brake on wage growth for low-paid: Giudice

The President of the AIRC, Justice Geoffrey Giudice, has warned that welfare payments might have to be cut to provide an incentive to work under Work Choices, as employees without bargaining power lose existing protections and the new Fair Pay Commission slows the growth in minimum wages. He also said the new IR laws might need amending to both strengthen bargaining rights and water down excessively-complex rules for authorising protected action.