Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

That was not the question. The question was: can the government guarantee that no worker will be left worse off? As I pointed out in my second reading speech, uncontradicted anywhere thus far, an employee who takes a voluntary redundancy can, in fact, be denied employment by a national scheme employer because they would be bringing with them terms and conditions that would not make it favourable for being employed by the new employer. As a result, this would leave that person without a job. We might be able to conclude that that worker would, in fact, be worse off having been made redundant and denied the opportunity of a new job.