Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer and Acting Prime Minister. I refer him to an AWA offered by Spotlight, a company with nearly 100 stores and 6,000 staff, to a prospective new employee in New South Wales which provides an hourly rate of 2c above the award rate of pay but which has no provision for any penalty rates and no provision for any overtime. Does the Acting Prime Minister believe it is appropriate that the government’s legislation enables penalty rates and overtime to be sold down the river for the princely sum of 2c an hour?

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