Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

So the question is: can a person be subject to both a no show, no pay failure and a reconnection failure on the same day? The short answer is no, for the purpose of calculating a penalty. The loss of one-tenth of a fortnightly payment would apply. Both, however, could be taken into account—let us not be obtuse about this—for the purpose of a comprehensive compliance assessment.