Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

I'm not aware of that having occurred. What I am aware of, and to clarify something I said earlier in terms of the number of employees who would benefit from this bill, is that the current matters before the commission, the three different awards—there are 443,500 employees covered by the retail award; the banking, finance and insurance award; and the clerk's award. That's 15 per cent of award-reliant workers, and they are exactly the people whose penalty rates are currently under threat from the application being brought by employer groups. They're exactly the people who will benefit from these laws.