Senate debates
Wednesday, 27 August 2025
Bills
Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025; In Committee
5:59 pm
Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source
Well, it's in your hands how long you have to get changed. Sorry, I've lost my train of thought. The only impact I can think of that this will have on the Fair Work Commission in terms of the time it will take and the complexity of approving EBAs would be to compare what the penalty rates would work out to versus what a rolled-up rate might be and how they compare. So, sure, that's a little bit of work, but the commission does that sort of thing all the time. I think your actual question in the end was effectively, 'Why are you doing this?' As I said before—because we think penalty rates matter.
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