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

The Greens will not be supporting these amendments. The Greens position very strongly is that we believe in universal access to unfair dismissal laws and in fact we do not really support the government’s level of 15, and we have made that extremely clear. But we have said that we are prepared to wear that because they did go to the electorate with that figure during the election. We will not be supporting any move above 15 because we do not believe that people working in small business should have different rights with respect to unfair dismissal rules.

Senator Boyce asked why the ALP does not just come out and say that everybody should have access to unfair dismissal rules. That is about the only thing that Senator Boyce has said that I agree with. I think they should give it to everybody and get rid of the 15-person limit.