Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is also about Qantas and goes to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Evans. I ask the minister: is it true that under the Fair Work Act a 72-hour warning period is required by workers for industrial action but was not required of Qantas for its lockout? Will the government be looking at rectifying this imbalance so that employers are required to give a 72-hour warning, at least on such lockouts, so that we do not see tens of thousands of Australians and other people stranded as they were by this sudden announcement of the lockout and the close-down by Qantas?