John Hogg (Queensland, Deputy-President) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. The minister failed to answer that part of my question which went to the issue of the employer not having to give a choice in offering a guarantee of a pay rise over the five-year life of the AWA to offset those lost conditions that I outlined in the first part of the question. In addition to any pay rise being at the discretion of the employer, under the Commonwealth Bank AWA, isn’t it true that paid parental leave is also a matter entirely for the employer to decide? Can the minister also confirm that the Commonwealth Bank employees the minister says are already on AWAs signed their agreements with the protection of the no disadvantage test? Hasn’t the government scrapped that protection for employees, opening the door to agreements that wipe out existing conditions and offer nothing in return?