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

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to an AWA offered by Lufthansa airline’s Australian subsidiary Global Tele Sales to its call centre employees, and to confidential internal documents associated with the AWA. Isn’t it the case that the AWA reduces penalty rates for Sunday and public holiday work, abolishes early morning and evening penalty rates and reduces base rates of pay? Isn’t it also the case that, on Global’s own calculations, a general reservations agent earning the base rate pay under Global’s AWA would be $49.86 a week worse off, $2,593 a year worse off or $5,186 worse off over the two-year life of the agreement when compared with the current collective agreement?

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