Gavin Marshall (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, yes, I do ask a supplementary question. I ask the minister: how is it fair—or, in his words, how is it so wonderful—for employers to deprive employees of penalty rates and overtime without any compensation? Don’t many middle- and low-income families rely on these payments to pay their mortgages? How does the minister expect the families of Commonwealth Bank employees who sign AWAs to get by when they lose their penalty rates and overtime but get nothing in return?