Mary Fisher (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, I am happy to move on to my next question. In the face of employer concerns about increased costs to be caused by the award modernisation provisions and in the face of concerns being expressed by both the business community and the worker community about the potential for job losses to flow from the award modernisation provisions, I would have thought that the government might have thought that a regulatory impact statement is hardly an independent assessment and is hardly an independent economic modelling of the costs to be experienced by business, the costs to be experienced by the workforce and the costs to be experienced by the country from the award modernisation provisions. Minister, where does the Fair Work Bill legislate the government’s stated intent of some 12 months ago that modern awards would not disadvantage employees?