Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is addressed to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. I refer the minister to the Prime Minister’s claim this week that working families in Australia have never been better off and to a recent Drake International survey of 300 predominantly small to medium sized businesses about the paperwork burden of the government’s industrial relations laws. Is the minister aware that the survey found that over 57 per cent believe that record-keeping requirements would have a negative effect on their business, 62 per cent said it would adversely affect staff morale and 52 per cent said it would have a possible negative impact on productivity? Minister, given these findings, how can the government arrogantly tell the families who run these businesses that they have never been better off?

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