Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Our legislation and our approach makes gender equity an objective of the Fair Work Act, bans pay secrecy clauses in employment contracts, creates two expert panels in the commission to deal with pay equity and the care and community sector, ensures that employers have a duty to prevent sexual harassment, makes the sexual harassment dispute process fairer and more effective, empowers the Fair Work Commission to settle disputes over flexible work requests by arbitration if necessary, prohibits the advertising of jobs at below legal minimum wages and, importantly, does what 18 out of 26 OECD countries do, which is to prioritise multi-employer bargaining.

Those opposite seem to think the sky will fall down. You're behind the OECD, and the reason so many of our competitor economies are going down this path is that it's good for productivity and it's good for co-operation. We want to get wages moving again. You are stuck in the 10 years of wage stagnation— (Time expired)