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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Michael McGowan and Paul Karp

NSW says federal Labor’s ‘brazen intervention’ in rail dispute could constitute ‘improper influence’

Commuters look at train timetables
NSW minister Damien Tudehope says Tony Burke’s ‘wink and a nod’ letter to the Fair Work Commission president ‘is all about pressuring the commission’. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

The New South Wales government is examining whether Tony Burke may have improperly influenced the Fair Work Commission when he wrote a letter to its president signalling a change to laws covering the termination of enterprise agreements.

Burke, the federal workplace relations minister, last week wrote to the commission explaining Labor wanted termination rules to be “fit for purpose and fair”, including limiting employers’ power to threaten to cut pay.

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