Jill Hall (Shortland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

(—) (): On Saturday afternoon, I joined United Voice workers who have been working on the Save Our Weekend campaign at the beautiful Caves Beach in my electorate. They have been conducting the campaign on the Central Coast, along with a number of other unions. They have been letting people know what it will mean to them if penalty rates are removed. The Save Our Weekend campaign workers have been handing out information at the Knights games and have been meeting with different workers in different industries. The SDA has been involved, talking to a number of retail workers, particularly on the Central Coast and in Charlestown Square in my electorate. Those workers rely on the penalty rates they receive for working weekends. The nurses were also involved. My daughter-in-law is a nurse at the John Hunter Hospital, and she relies on the extra money that she gets for working weekends and for spending time away from her family, from her children. We had a family event this weekend and she was unable to attend, but she received penalty rates for working on that day. Penalty rates are vitally important. They keep our society— (Time expired)