Senate debates
Wednesday, 27 August 2025
Bills
Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025; In Committee
7:06 pm
Maria Kovacic (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source
I guess I haven't met many shy people in this place, so I'm sure that that's not a surprise at all. Perhaps I'm not articulating myself properly. Through this bill, the government is giving the Fair Work Commission a directive, as opposed to letting them use fair and reasonable measures of their own judgement, yet you can't explain how they're going to be directed. That's confusing to me. And I guess it's confusing to the employer groups and the others that provided evidence in the Senate inquiry that suggests that this could potentially be problematic.
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