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

The Bills Digest says that your bill may make it more difficult for enterprise agreements with rolled-up rates of pay or annualised salaries to be approved. To quote directly from the digest:

The Bill also does not provide protections for penalty or overtime rates in enterprise agreements. However, existing requirements concerning the approval of enterprise agreements, alongside the new measures in the Bill, may make it slightly more difficult for enterprise agreements that include 'rolled up' rates of pay or annualised salaries to gain approval in the future.

Throughout the inquiry into this bill, the government and unions insisted that, if workplaces want flexibility, they can achieve it through enterprise bargaining.

Why is the government now making it harder for workers and employers to include flexible arrangements in enterprise agreements?