Stephen Smith (Perth, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Industry, Infrastructure and Industrial Relations) Share this | Hansard source

My question is also to the Prime Minister and it follows on from his answer to the Leader of the Opposition in which he said that mine safety training should be allowable as a matter of course. I refer the Prime Minister to a statement by the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations on 20 March this year:

Matters that do not pertain to the employment relationship should not be part of agreements ...

And:

[Training] is something which people are entitled to do in their own time. It is not part of the job they are doing.

Given that, post Beaconsfield, the Prime Minister now disagrees with his minister, will the Prime Minister change the government’s extreme industrial relations legislation to allow leave for trade union occupational health and safety training to be part of workplace agreements?

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