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

My question is again to the Prime Minister. I refer again to the Esselte AWA. Prime Minister, isn’t it a fact that that AWA provides for an increased rate of pay of $1.25 per hour above the current enterprise agreement hourly rate of pay? Isn’t it also a fact that the AWA reduces the availability of overtime and the rate of pay for overtime, scraps shift loadings for morning and afternoon shifts, scraps weekend penalty rates and does not provide for a wage increase during the three-year term of the AWA? Prime Minister, isn’t it a fact that this AWA leaves a full-time employee working two hours of overtime during the week and a Saturday shift—

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