Jacinta Collins (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for School Education and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

I think that question is actually confusing two different issues. What these provisions will provide for is for an employee to receive their full entitlement under the Fair Entitlements Guarantee. That does not enhance what their entitlement may be. You made the point earlier about employees who may have an entitlement that is greater than the minimum entitlement established under the NES. Those employees have that entitlement regardless of whether their redundancy falls within the scope of the Fair Entitlements Guarantee or whether the employer is able to meet those entitlements themselves without drawing on the Fair Entitlements Guarantee.