Senate debates Fair Work Bill 2008

In Committee


Steve Fielding

Steve Fielding Victoria, Family First Party

9:10 pm

I may be able to help in this. There is some merit in the workplace definition as well as the enterprise definition. Can you have ‘and/or’? I can see an argument being put forward for that. Then the emphasis is not just on ‘enterprise’ and it does not exclude or preclude ‘workplace level’ in that definition. So you would have: ‘achieving productivity and fairness through an emphasis on enterprise-level and/or workplace-level collective bargaining underpinned by simple good faith bargaining obligations and clear rules governing industrial action’. I wonder whether that might help.

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