Clare O'Neil (Hotham, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Innovation, Technology and the Future of Work) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Industrial Relations. Yesterday the minister confirmed he would not be a party to legal action involving printing company Ovato, which is denying 300 workers' redundancy payments. This will leave them with no income over Christmas while they wait for their Fair Entitlements Guarantee applications to be processed. Why does the minister only intervene in matters that support cutting workers' pay and conditions, and why won't he intervene to help these 300 workers who face a Christmas with no income?

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