Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer and Revenue) Share this | Hansard source

I now hear her talking about unfair dismissals. I am happy to acknowledge that I have heard from some small business people who are a bit concerned about dismissal policies too. What they have been telling me is that they are not scared about unfair dismissals; they are scared about a thing called ‘unlawful dismissal’. They know that, now this government has taken away their opportunity to take the less expensive and less cumbersome path of unfair dismissal, people will be coming after their former employers under a thing we call ‘unlawful dismissal’. The minister sitting at the table must surely know—or, at least, I hope she knows—that the unlawful dismissal path will be far more cumbersome and far more expensive for small business operators. She also knows that—

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