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 to the fact that Serco Sodexho Defence Services has been awarded a Defence services contract to provide garrison support at the Royal Military College, Duntroon. Is the Prime Minister aware that having won this contract Serco is refusing to collectively bargain with its employees and has offered an AWA which cuts the hourly rate of pay by $1.33 below the existing collective agreement, cuts the Saturday penalty rate by $2.00 an hour below the existing collective agreement, and cuts the public holiday penalty rate by $3.33 per hour below the existing collective agreement? Isn’t the Prime Minister’s wages race to the bottom the real reason the government supports individual contracts over collective bargaining?

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