Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

The scenario I can foresee is that if there is a particular workforce on a particular shop floor that might be minded to provide the employer with a bit of pain, you could get somebody appointed, let them go through the training and, once having received the training, they could resign and immediately elect somebody else, who then gets the five days off work—which means they will not be productive—and so go through a chain of events which could impose a substantial cost, especially for a small business. The plight of a small business faced with what in effect would be a type of industrial action without industrial action actually being taken clearly has not been considered in any detail.