Fines of up to $4.5 million, 10 years jail for corrupt payments to unions

By Anna Patty
Updated March 20 2017 - 4:38pm, first published 4:28pm
Brendan O'Connor during a press conference in Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday 30 September 2014. Photo: Andrew Meares Photo: Andrew Meares
Brendan O'Connor during a press conference in Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday 30 September 2014. Photo: Andrew Meares Photo: Andrew Meares

Employers and union officials will face up to ten years' jail and companies will be fined as much as $4.5 million if they give or receive secret payments designed to corrupt a union official under new laws the Turnbull government will introduce.

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