Stephen Smith (Perth, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Industry, Infrastructure and Industrial Relations) Share this | Hansard source

I claim to have been misrepresented by the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations in question time today, the same misrepresentation he made of the Leader of the Opposition Thursday week ago and again today and repeated by the Acting Prime Minister in question time today. The minister referred to a transcript of a doorstop interview that I did this morning. What he did not quote was the following:

It’s prohibited content and unlawful for a union to seek to include in an agreement with an employer leave arrangements for occupational health and safety training. The prohibited content clearly makes it unlawful for a union to seek to agree with an employer to make occupational health and safety training part of leave arrangements.

That is a clear reference to regulation 8.5(1)(C), which says:

As prohibited content, employees bound by any agreement receiving leave to attend training by a trade union.

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