Senate debates

Wednesday, 26 October 2022

Bills

Fair Work Amendment (Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2022; In Committee

6:55 pm

Photo of Murray WattMurray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

I guess that is theoretically right, but, in the situation you're talking about, if a casual employee is working for three different employers, I'm going to take a punt that they might be working one day a week at one employer and two days a week at another, or part days. The person would only qualify for leave for the amount of time that they actually work. So, if they're working three half-days at three different employers, they'd qualify for 10 days at part-time pay levels. I don't think we're likely to see situations where people get to take three lots of 10 days at a full-time pay level. I know there are lots of people in this chamber who work far more than a full-time day's work, but we're not talking about people who work three full-time jobs who would qualify for three full-time levels of this form of leave.

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