Kate Ellis (Adelaide, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister and again refers to 17-year-old Billy Schultze who works at the Belair BP service station and has recently been suspended and punished financially for not noting down all the registration details of drive-offs that occurred during his shift. Is the Prime Minister aware that Billy was last week offered a new AWA that cuts his hourly rate of pay by almost $2 an hour—from $9.09 to $7.17—and that the company’s stated reason to Billy for this cut in his pay was ‘to cover the cost of drive-offs’? Does the Prime Minister think it is fair that, not content with penalising Billy for drive-offs, the employer is now penalising him by using the government’s extreme industrial relations changes to drive his wages down?

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