Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Corporate Governance and Responsibility) Share this | Hansard source

I have a supplementary question. Can the minister confirm that under Work Choices an AWA can remove all entitlements to jury service? Isn’t it the case that the removal of these entitlements also undermines the job security of jurors? Isn’t this why at least one juror has already been sacked as a consequence of their absence from work due to their involvement in a long trial? Does the minister seriously think that employees being sacked for undertaking their lawful duty as citizens is a demonstration of what he said yesterday was the ‘wonderful impact’ of the government’s workplace laws?