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

I note that during the hearings the department also pointed to IFAs as a particular solution. I'm trying to understand why something that the commission themselves has called problematic is being pointed to both by the minister and the department as a particular solution. You have said this bill will protect vulnerable workers, particularly women—this is where we led into the conversation around IFAs—while still affording them flexibility via IFAs. But the Fair Work Commission's report shows that IFAs are too hard for many employers, rarely implemented and easily terminated. If the very mechanism you are relying on to deliver flexibility has been found to be so ineffective, how can IFAs genuinely safeguard that flexibility in practice?