Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

asked the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, upon notice, on 25 June 2012 :

'In regard to Individual Flexibility Agreements (IFAs), does the Minister stand by the former Minister's comments that the 28-day-rule is an 'impediment to the use of IFAs'.

Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations has provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question:

The Minister is not in a position to comment on reported remarks by the former Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations without the benefit of the context in which the reported remarks were made.

The Minister does note, however, that the 28-day rule was canvassed in a number of submissions to the Fair Work Review.