House debates

Thursday, 3 August 2023

Questions without Notice

Economy

2:20 pm

Photo of Mr Tony BurkeMr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

a job ad should be banned if it's advertising a wage rate that is illegal. But even that was a step too far for them. Even that was too much, and they had to oppose that as well. Sunsetting the zombie agreements, where people are on pay and conditions from the Howard WorkChoices era: they had to oppose that and having workable bargaining rules as well. There will be more tests to come on your commitment to caring about whether people are getting more pay when we look, later this year, at closing the loopholes that undercut wages.

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