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. I refer the Prime Minister to Esselte, an American multinational, the largest general office products manufacturer in the world, with an Australian subsidiary. Is the Prime Minister aware that Esselte Australia has offered employees at one of its New South Wales warehouses an AWA which provides for an increased rate of pay of $1.25 per hour above the current enterprise agreement hourly rate of pay but scraps Saturday penalty rates, scraps Sunday penalty rates, reduces penalty rates for public holidays and does not provide for a wage increase during the three-year term of the AWA? Isn’t it the case that this AWA leaves a full-time employee working a Saturday shift $65 a week—

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