Senate debates

Wednesday, 27 August 2025

Bills

Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025; In Committee

12:10 pm

Photo of Maria KovacicMaria Kovacic (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

I think the question that I'm thinking about here is in relation to EBAs and IFAs, which is a different matter and relates more to larger organisations, but I will come back to that later. My concern in relation to this is that this government states that it supports flexibility. There are many people now, as we saw during the election period, talking about the importance of workplace flexibility, in particular working from home, and of negotiating those terms with their employers. My concern is how this bill, which becomes incredibly proscriptive in relation to certain elements, aligns with the government's stated support of workplace flexibility, particularly as it comes to an employee and employer being able to come to a mutual agreement.

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