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

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his comments this morning about the Commonwealth Bank AWA. He said, ‘The AWA, I am told, does buy out several award conditions.’ That is a statement he repeated in his earlier answer. Isn’t it actually the case that the Commonwealth Bank Australian workplace agreement, not covered by the previous no disadvantage test and offered to employees in October this year, expressly excludes 46 award conditions, including—and I quote from page 1 of the schedule of the AWA, ‘protected award conditions excluded’: payment for working overtime, shift allowances, overtime, weekends and public holidays, annual leave loading, public holidays, minimum breaks, tea breaks, dry cleaning, allowances, meal allowances, meal breaks, breaks, basis of payment—

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