Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

What those opposite are trying to protect and maintain is an unfair scheme that they put in place with their union mates when they were in government. But this government is going to maintain a safety net paid parental leave scheme for those who were not getting something before. Do you know where they were working? They were working in small businesses. Small business employers could not afford to pay for that. Now, under this scheme, they can. We support that. But what we are not going to support is cost shifting and subsidising of large employers, particularly those in the public sector, which is what the Labor public sector union scheme is designed to achieve. We support a fair scheme, not deals cooked up between the Labor Party and public sector unions. (Time expired)

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