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

by the Prime Minister, just then. Yesterday in question time I asked the Prime Minister a question in respect of the Martin Donnelly Electrical Services AWA and referred to the fact that ‘payment of bonuses, overtime, loadings, penalties or other allowances is at the sole discretion of the company’. That is reflected by the AWA. Secondly, I asked if the Prime Minister was aware that ‘a multistorey allowance is removed’. That is reflected by the AWA. Thirdly, I asked if the Prime Minister was aware that there is no guaranteed pay increase during the three-year life of the agreement. That is reflected by the AWA—three years from 1 October 2006. In addition, to deal with some of the points raised by the Prime Minister, under the collective agreement there is a productivity allowance of—

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