Matt O'Sullivan (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I'm conscious that we want to move through this quickly, so I'll keep my question as brief as I can. Minister, are you able to explain to us something that some stakeholders, and, obviously, victims survivors in particular, have raised? No doubt, many of us here have received emails on this issue of privacy and confidentiality. This goes into this particular amendment. I'll give you a cameo. That might help. If an employee claims domestic violence leave, it's recorded in the HR system. It's good that that amendment means that it won't necessarily need to appear on the payslip. But if it's recorded in the system and that employee moves on from that employment, would the privacy of the individual still be protected if that person moves on, applies for another job, and that new prospective employee goes back to that employer and asks the question: 'Has this person ever claimed domestic violence leave?' Would that be a breach of privacy? Would it be a breach of that person's situation if that was provided to that new employer—that information that that person had, at some point, claimed domestic violence leave? It would be good to have that recorded for Hansard.