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

by leave—I move opposition amendments (1) to (9), (11) to (13), (22), (24), (25), (27), (30) and (34) to (46) on sheet 5295 revised:

(1)    Schedule 1, item 1, page 4 (lines 28 and 29), omit the definition of protected award conditions in subsection 346B(1).

(2)    Schedule 1, item 1, page 5 (lines 16 to 24), omit the definition of salary.

(3)    Schedule 1, item 1, page 5 (lines 25 to 32), omit subsection 346B(2) and the note.

(4)    Schedule 1, item 1, page 6 (lines 1 to 16), omit “protected” (wherever occurring).

(5)    Schedule 1, item 1, page 6 (line 17), omit “protected”.

(6)    Schedule 1, item 1, page 8 (lines 1 to 23), omit “protected” (twice occurring).

(7)    Schedule 1, item 1, page 7 (lines 22 to 35), omit paragraph 346E(1)(c).

(8)    Schedule 1, item 1, page 9 (lines 18 to 40), omit “protected” (twice occurring).

(9)    Schedule 1, item 1, page 9 (lines 4 to 17), omit paragraph 346F(1)(c).

(11)  Schedule 1, item 1, page 14 (line 2), omit “paragraphs 346E(1)(a), (b) and (c)”, substitute “paragraphs 346E(1)(a) and (b)”.

(12)  Schedule 1, item 1, page 14 (lines 14 and 15), omit “paragraphs 346F(1)(b) and (c)”, substitute “paragraph 346F(1)(b)”.

(13)  Schedule 1, item 1, page 15 (line 20) to page 16 (line 10), omit “protected” (wherever occurring).

(22)  Schedule 1, item 1, page 24 (lines 24 and 25), omit “, to the extent that the designated award contains protected award conditions”.

(24)  Schedule 1, item 1, page 28 (lines 12 and 13), omit “, to the extent that it contains protected award conditions”.

(25)  Schedule 1, item 1, page 28 (line 13), omit “protected”.

(27)  Schedule 1, item 1, page 31 (lines 10 to 19), omit “protected” (wherever occurring).

(30)  Schedule 1, item 8, page 33 (line 24), omit “certain protected”.

(34)  Schedule 1, item 41, page 41 (lines 10 and 11), omit paragraph 25B(1)(c).

(35)  Schedule 1, item 41, page 41 (lines 15 and 16), omit paragraph 25B(1)(d), substitute

             (d)    a reference in that Division to award conditions were a reference to preserved conditions; and

(36)  Schedule 1, item 41, page 41 (lines 20 to 24), omit paragraph 25B(1)(f), substitute:

              (f)    section 346C was substituted with:

                      “For the purposes of this Division, preserved conditions are taken to apply under a preserved State agreement in relation to an employee if the employee’s employment is subject to a workplace agreement.”; and

(37)  Schedule 1, item 41, page 41 (lines 25 and 26), omit paragraph 25B(1)(g).

(38)  Schedule 1, item 41, page 41 (lines 32 to 37), omit the words from “(b) if there is” to and including “agreement.”, substitute “(b) if there is no instrument of the kind referred to in paragraph (a) in relation to the employer and one or more of the employees—preserved conditions in relation to the employee.”.

(39)  Schedule 1, item 41, page 42 (line 6), omit “protected”.

(40)  Schedule 1, item 41, page 42 (line 10), omit “protected”.

(41)  Schedule 1, item 41, page 42 (lines 16 and 17), omit the definition ofprotected preserved condition in subclause 25B(3), substitute

preserved condition means a term of a State award or a provision of a State or Territory industrial law, as in force immediately before the reform commencement, that would have determined a term or condition of employment of a person, had the person been employed at that time and that employment not been subject to a State employment agreement.

(42)  Schedule 1, item 41, page 42 (lines 23 to 31), omit subclause 25B(4) and the note.

(43)  Schedule 1, item 42, page 43 (lines 11 and 12), omit paragraph 52AAA(1)(c).

(44)  Schedule 1, item 42, page 43 (lines 16 and 17), omit paragraph 52AAA(1)(d), substitute:

             (d)    a reference in that Division to award conditions were a reference to notional conditions; and

(45)  Schedule 1, item 42, page 43 (lines 32 and 33), omit the definition of protected notional conditions in subclause 52AAA(2), substitute:

notional condition means a term of a notional agreement preserving State awards.

(46)  Schedule 1, item 42, page 44 (lines 3 to 10), omit subclause 52AAA(3) and the note.

Very briefly, these amendments deal with the definition of protected award conditions and various other matters, including the effect of the agreement passed as the review. Amendments (34) to (36) deal with protected award conditions. Fundamentally, the principle behind these amendments is that Labor believes that all award conditions should be protected, not just some. That is the thrust of this range of amendments. They go to the heart of one of the distinctions between Labor and the government—that is, we think award conditions are actually worth protecting. Apparently the Howard government does not, so I urge the Senate to consider these amendments.