George Campbell (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I would again repeat the question, Minister, because it may not be acceptable to the employee—I may not want the Kentucky fried chickens that are due to expire on Saturday or Sunday; I may not want the piece of fish or the bread or whatever else they are offering me as non-monetary compensation. They may not be aspects of the agreement that I am interested in, whatever they are. What I am trying to get at is: if the workplace director says, ‘In order to remedy this agreement, you will have to do X, Y and Z,’ and then the employee says, ‘I don’t want to do X, Y and Z to remedy the agreement; I prefer to do A, B and C,’ what avenues are available to me as that employee to pursue that element of the remedy? Or do I simply have to meet what the workplace director says are the deficiencies? Or is it up to the employer to make the remedy to the agreement without reference to the employee? Bear in mind that I am an 18-year-old who is entering the workforce for the first time and I have just spent four weeks negotiating this agreement with David Jones’s head of human resources.