Allegra Spender (Wentworth, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I'd like to speak briefly on the topic of businesses having to opt in to a bargain that has already been agreed to. The minister has rightly outlined that, if workers want to bargain, they should be able to bargain, and I wholeheartedly agree with that. But a business should also be able to bargain. If they're going to be pushed into an agreement and they have not had a chance to bargain, that could be extremely detrimental to their business and extremely detrimental to the workers involved as well, in the long term.

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