Kevin Andrews (Menzies, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

We heard on the Channel 10 News on Monday evening from the store manager of Sumo Salad, a small business, who said:

We can provide a lot of productivity and performance based incentives. We can convert part-time people into more permanent positions so we can improve our service. Our staff are a lot happier. We guarantee some work on the roster. We guarantee some weekend work.

Here you have two examples of businesses, in one case large business and in the other case small business, saying, ‘We can take on more workers and we can pay them adequately’—in fact, in the case of John Holland, up to $2,700.

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