Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Just in terms of the Geelong Manufacturing Council: in their media release they raise a number of serious concerns, including in relation to:

Senator Hanson has just referred exactly to what their concerns are in that regard—a centralised setting of terms and conditions, a one-size-fits-all policy that doesn't fit all employers—

reducing individual enterprise-level autonomy and competitiveness.

Did the government give any consideration to excluding the manufacturing sector from the multi-employer provisions in the bill?