Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I am not saying I agree with your distinction, but thank you for providing that. I want to go back to the reasoning behind what it means to voluntarily leave a job. One of the issues that was raised during the Senate inquiry and also informally with me is: what happens where someone leaves a job because they are uncomfortable, because they have not been able to make adequate childcare arrangements or because they feel harassed and do not want to take a case through the harassment process because they do not feel they would be able to prove a case, so it is easier for them to leave work? Is that able to be dealt with through the process that you outlined before in the guidelines so that people have, basically, a way of explaining why they left a job without copping the preclusion period?