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

My question is also to the Prime Minister and it relates to the Spotlight AWA. I refer the Prime Minister to statements today by the general manager of marketing of Spotlight stores that Spotlight’s AWA is being offered because:

We are doing what we were told by the legislators. We are not the ones writing the laws. Like any other legislation we fall under, we follow it.

Prime Minister, isn’t it the case that, consistent with the government’s legislation, the AWA offered by Spotlight gives 2c an hour for losing penalty rates, overtime payments, public holiday pay rates, annual leave loading, rest breaks and incentive based payments and bonuses?

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