Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The Labor Party is spending more of taxpayers' money to pay for more of these Fair Work inspectors to intrude into these employers' venues in order to hit them with a civil penalty. Well, that is just not good enough. And, Madam Speaker, you would think if the government were going to introduce such controversial and detrimental legislative provisions into this place that it would have the courtesy to conduct a regulatory impact statement, but it has not. You have waived a regulatory impact statement from being conducted here, you have not allowed proper scrutiny by the relevant committees and, once again, you are bulldozing this parliament into approving your union friendly legislation.

I finish where I started, which is that we cannot support this legislation when it increases the burden on employers, when it will have detrimental impacts on our economy, when the level of compliance is coming at a time when business owners and employers just do not need more compliance and when it is a payback to the masters of the Labor Party in the union movement. (Time expired)

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