Craig Kelly (Hughes, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

They are a duck egg: zero on a Sunday. Do you know why? Because they have been ripped off in dodgy deals by the Labor Party.

Mr Brian Mitchell interjecting—

Here we go! The member for Lyons might like to explain to us: how is someone who only works on a Sunday better off overall if they do not get any penalty rates at all? How are they better off? It is a complete and utter nonsense, and this nonsense has been exposed by the Fair Work Commission. They said the dodgy Coles' agreement that was signed up by them was found to not pass the better-off-overall test. By who? By the Fair Work Commission themselves. And what were these things traded off for? What were they really traded off for?

They were traded off for greater union control and greater union power. Let's go through the KFC National Enterprise Agreement. What did they trade off their penalty rates for? KFC workers, who get a ducat on a Sunday, were ripped off by the unions, and this is what they were ripped off for:

The employer—

which is KFC—

undertakes to positively promote union membership by recommending that all employees join the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (the Union).

It says:

All employees, including new employees at the point of recruitment, shall be given an application form to join the union, together with a statement of the employer's policy.

What 15-year-old kid who has that form shoved under his desk before he starts is not going to sign it? Of course he is going to sign it. And what happens when he signs it? Firstly, he gets zero penalty rates, but, even worse than that, it gives the unions the opportunity to raid his pay packet.

This is clause 41.4:

The employer undertakes, upon authorisation, to deduct union membership dues as levied by the union in accordance with its rules …

They are the union's rules—so the union decides how much it will deduct from the pay of these poor workers that you guys are so concerned about. What an absolute farce! What a pack of hypocrites you lot are, talking about young people. It goes on:

Such monies collected will be forwarded to the appropriate branch of the union at the beginning of each month …

What an outrage! It is unbelievable. And where does that money go? Who was the biggest receiver of the Labor Party funds of the shop assistants' union? It was you lot! Your election campaigns are financed by taking money out of the youngest employees—

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