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

As I was outlining, the Labor government’s approach to unfair dismissal rights includes covering small businesses with fewer than 15 employees, an extended period of 12 months before small business employees can make an unfair dismissal claim and, of course, the development of a small business fair dismissal code. We reject the Howard government’s definition of a ‘small business’—100 or fewer employees—because we are getting the balance right. We are getting the balance right with Forward with Fairness. We are getting the right balance to ensure that employees do have flexibility and fairness in the employment sphere. On 24 November 2007—