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. I refer to Senate estimates hearings last night where the spotlight was on AWAs and the Office of the Employment Advocate. Isn’t it the case that, of the sample 6,263 AWAs lodged with the Office of the Employment Advocate since the commencement of the government’s industrial relations legislation, 100 per cent—all of them—excluded at least one protected award condition, 64 per cent removed leave loadings, 63 per cent removed penalty rates, 52 per cent removed shift work loadings and 16 per cent excluded all award conditions? Isn’t this just what the government’s legislation causes and wants—a 2c an hour race to the bottom?

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