Bernie Ripoll (Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Industry, Infrastructure and Industrial Relations) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Human Services and Minister Assisting the Minister for Workplace Relations. I refer the minister to his recent visit to the Tamworth abattoir, the Peel Valley Exporters. Will the minister now swing by Australian Country Choice meatworks in Brisbane, where workers are required to sign this ‘take it or leave it’ AWA that contains no penalty rates, no shift allowances, no overtime rates and no public holiday rate or weekend penalty rate? Will the minister explain to these Brisbane meatworkers how, under the government, the choice at the appropriately named Australian Country Choice is a choice with one option: take the AWA or don’t get the job at all?

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