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NewsMail Afternoon Edition Thu 04 Sep, 2014 Top Stories More Top Stories » Labor seizes on Liberal MP's call for weekend penalty rate cut By political reporter Eliza Borello Labor has seized on a Federal Liberal backbencher's call for weekend and public holiday penalty rates to be slashed for small business workers, saying it is a "Trojan Horse" for attacks on nurses and paramedics. Western Sydney backbencher Alex Hawke said the country's youth unemployment "crisis" warranted immediate change. "Given that Sundays are no longer sacrosanct ... having to pay a 75 per cent loading [is] an old concept," he said. "There's no real reason or modern defence for paying such a loading on the same trading day as any other." 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