Bruce Billson (Dunkley, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Small Business, Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Has the minister seen this 17 December 2010 letter from the then Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Employment and Economic Development in the Queensland government—now Minister for Tourism, Manufacturing and Small Business—Jan Jarratt, where she states:

Mandating employers to take over the paymaster function—

for the paid parental leave payments—

is a costly and time consuming administrative issue for employers, particularly those who are operators of small businesses.

Why won’t the government accept the advice of a Labor colleague and adopt the coalition’s bill to keep the payment responsibilities with the Family Assistance Office rather than making life harder for the hard-working small businessmen and women of Australia?

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