Andrew Leigh (Fenner, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury) Share this | Hansard source

The government will not be supporting this amendment on the grounds that the Fair Work Commission provides an efficient, low-cost option for resolving disputes, and excluding this would be inconsistent with the underlying intention of the act to provide additional pathways for workers to recover unpaid superannuation. The amendment proposed by the opposition would prevent the Fair Work Commission from dealing with terms of the enterprise agreement regarding superannuation and not just disputes relating to the National Employment Standards entitlement to superannuation. It would also limit dispute resolution mechanisms previously agreed to by the parties and would inhibit resolution of disputes regarding existing enterprise agreement terms relating to superannuation.

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