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

Minister, stakeholders told the Fair Work Commission that IFAs are confusing, are rarely implemented and create uncertainty. For the benefit of the workers you say could rely on IFAs to obtain flexibility, could you explain step by step how an award-reliant single mother in a clerical role under the Clerks—Private Sector Award, not covered by an enterprise agreement, is to enter into an IFA to finish at 3 pm to collect her children and then make up the hours later from home with a working-from-home agreement instead of working penalty rate late shifts. In doing so, can you also explain to me how her employer is to navigate the better off overall test, the written documentation requirements, the risk of unilateral termination and the general confusion and reluctance to use IFAs that your own department's report identified. How do they do that?