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

I can say that the government have considered Greens amendments (18), (19) and (20). In short, we do not think (18) and (19) are required. With regard to (18), we think that Fair Work Australia will be able to vary an application to ensure that employer names are correctly identified. Amendment (19) is not required, as the bill already makes it clear that a workplace determination must pass the BOOT. In relation to amendment (20), those limitations are very important. They limit the ability for low-paid workplace determinations and they should remain. On that basis, we do not support these Greens amendments—although, because of the substantive work that has gone into them, we did have a very long look at them.