Rod Sawford (Port Adelaide, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer and Acting Prime Minister. I again refer to the Spotlight AWA, which pays a rate of 2c an hour above the current award rate of pay but which provides that Saturday work is paid at the ordinary rate of pay, not time and a quarter as under the award; Sunday work is paid at the ordinary rate of pay, not time and a half as under the award; and there is no public holiday pay rate or loading. Does the Acting Prime Minister believe it is appropriate that the government’s legislation enables these conditions to be sold down the river for a princely sum of 2c an hour?

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