Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation) Share this | Hansard source

yes—like, ‘It is fair.’ That would not really assist anybody and would not be of great assistance, but it would be added bureaucracy, added cost for no benefit because under 346P:

(1)

If the Workplace Authority Director decides … that a workplace agreement passes the fairness test, the Workplace Authority Director must notify the following of the decision:

(a)

the employer in relation to the workplace agreement;

(b)

if the workplace agreement is an AWA—the employee whose employment is subject to the AWA;

(c)

if the agreement is a union collective agreement or a union greenfields agreement—the organisation or organisations bound by the agreement.

So they will in fact be notified that it was determined to be fair. For them to have to set out all of the reasons when the parties had entered into this agreement voluntarily seems to me to be unfortunate and unnecessary bureaucracy.

Coming to Senator Campbell, can I remind him of the extra protection that Australian workers were provided for the first time ever as a result of the Howard government legislation? Because of clause 37—