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Will the cut to penalty rates affect your teenager?

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Will the cut to penalty rates affect your teenager?

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If your teenager is studying and has a part time job there's a very good chance they do weekend shifts.

If those shifts are covered by either the Retail Award or the Fast Food Award then there's a good chance they're going to see a decrease in their pay.

 

To update young people about how this may effect them, ReachOut.com posted this blog piece.

 

I thought it might be handy for anyone who's had their young person ask them what's going on or who thinks their young person needs to know what changes have occurred. Because without that cold, hard cash - how are they going to...

 

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