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NDP Leader Rachel Notley is poised to battle the government on labour laws and education funding as the Opposition is sworn in Monday.

“We’re going to fight very hard against any efforts on their part to cut overtime for working people because we know that has a disproportionate effect on people who are working in the oil and gas industry,” she said in an interview Saturday.

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During the election campaign, Premier Jason Kenney promised to cut overtime payouts for banked hours, saying the move would simply bring back rules that were in place for decades.

He also said he wanted to lower the $15 minimum wage to $13 for young workers.

Notley said fighting that is another top priority for the NDP to prevent youth from being treated like “second-class citizens.”

A legislative session will launch later this month.

Kenney has long said the first bill his government plans to introduce will repeal the NDP’s carbon tax.