Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Siewert, I think you had a question on this. If it is not a question that is going to alter your position on it then I wonder if we can deal with this amendment first and I can undertake to come back to you when I have officials in here on the issue you raised.

Question agreed to.

by leave—I move government amendments (2) to (4) on sheet PA412 together:

(2)    Schedule 1, item 2, page 5 (line 24), after “workplace agreement is”, insert “, so far as the context permits,”.

(3)    Schedule 1, item 2, page 5 (lines 31 and 32), omit “employee’s overall terms and conditions of employment”, substitute “overall terms and conditions of employment of the employee whose employment is subject to the agreement”.

(4)    Schedule 1, item 2, page 6 (line 4), after “employment of the employees”, insert “whose employment is subject to the agreement”.

These amendments are minor corrections to ensure technical consistency of reference. They will clarify that for the purposes of the no disadvantage test a reference to an employee means a reference to employees whose employment is subject to an agreement and includes a future employee but only insofar as the context permits—for example, in the context of an ITEA for a person not yet employed or a greenfields agreement covering persons not yet employed.

Question agreed to.