Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

The government has introduced legislation to amend the Fair Work Act to ban corrupting benefits paid by employers to unions and union officials. Our legislation also requires disclosure of all benefits flowing to employer groups, unions and businesses under workplace deals. What this will do is end the secrecy in these payments. If a payment is a legitimate payment than let us make sure every single Australian—but in particular those affected by the payment, the hardworking members of employer groups or unions—knows why these payments are being made. This is the type of confidence we as parliamentarians, we as senators, need to give to the Australian people: confidence that both their employer and the relevant union are looking after their interests and not looking after the interests of their own.