The ALP has reacted strongly to a proposal put forward by Harvey Norman chairman, Gerry Harvey, to go further with its industrial relations policy by cutting foreign workers’ wages by 50 per cent, according to a report from Sky News.

Harvey claims this would provide a cheap opportunity for companies to hire labour, and would also stop manufacturers from moving their sites offshore.

Unions NSW secretary, John Robertson, said Harvey’s plan is “part of big business agenda to work with the Government to go further on IR if re-elected,” said Sky News.