Christian Porter (Pearce, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

There's a provision that Labor put into the Fair Work Act which allows, in out-of-the-ordinary circumstances, for changes and variations from awards. It's used very infrequently, and we have extended it to apply to COVID. Many of the instances where it has been used previously relate to drought and flood, and they almost exclusively relate to changes in the number of hours worked and span of hours. So, again, your characterisation of the provision that we have used to extend the provision that you instituted in the act is actually wrong.

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