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

I thank the member for Perth for that question. I have two responses. The first response is to read out to him a provision contained in the offer of an AWA by the bank. It contains this expression of choice:

If you are being offered employment by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, you may elect to accept that employment on the terms of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Employees Award 1999 and Commonwealth Bank of Australia Enterprise Bargaining Agreement 2002. You may obtain electronic access to a copy of these two documents.

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