Julia Irwin (Fowler, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the government’s $55 million advertising campaign, which included this WorkChoices booklet stamping the entitlements of rest breaks, annual leave loadings, allowances, shift overtime loadings as ‘Protected by law’. I also refer to the AWA offered to employees at the New South Wales child-care centre operator, Childs Family Kindergartens, which cuts the wages for child-care workers set by the New South Wales Industrial Relations Commission and expressly removes a number of provisions, including rest breaks, annual leave loading, first aid allowance and overtime payments beyond two extra hours work. Rather than being protected, don’t these conditions disappear with the stroke of a pen—your pen, Prime Minister?

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