John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I am telling the member for Perth that my assertion in relation to annual leave is absolutely true. Loadings were the subject of bargaining long before Work Choices. There is nothing revolutionary about that. Let me just remind the member for Perth in case he has forgotten that under the Work Choices law you are guaranteed four weeks annual leave. You cannot give that away. You are allowed at your request—that I think has to be in writing—to cash out up to two weeks of that. And do you know the state of Australia on which that particular provision is modelled? It was modelled on the industrial relations legislation of the Western Australian government.

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