The Workplace Relations minister has announced plans to reintroduce pay deductions for partial strikes, which were stopped under Labour in 2018.

The Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden has announced plans to reintroduce pay deductions for partial strikes.

A partial strike is where the employee is still doing some form of their work. Employers have been banned from reducing the worker’s pay since the previous Labour-led government removed that power in 2018.

ACT’s van Velden said she recognised the entitlement of employees to strike, but the disruption caused “should not continue without consequence”.