Carol Brown (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Senator Abetz. I refer the minister to a question asked yesterday about employers who sack their employees and then rehire them on lower wages. Is the minister aware of the case of three employees who were sacked by the Melbourne construction firm InstallEx but then offered their old jobs back on a lower pay and with casual conditions? Weren’t these workers then left with the choice of taking their old job back but now as a casual worker doing the same thing but on $20,000 less a year each or becoming unemployed. Isn’t a system like that simply unfair and unAustralian?