Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that the Fair Work Act 2009 passed the Parliament with the support of the Honourable Bill Shorten, MP, and that the Fair Work Bill 2008 was circulated under the name of the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, the Honourable Julia Gillard, MP;

(b) notes that Mr Shorten enhanced some of the penalties for breaching the Fair Work laws when he was Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations;

(c) calls on all employers, employees and other groups to abide by the Fair Work laws; and

(d) condemns any expressions for support of breaching the Fair Work laws by employers, employees or other groups.