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

Senator Cash, as you've said, Minister Burke in the House debate pointed out that the government's strong preference is that individual employers and their workers and relevant unions reach agreements at the enterprise level. We know that that's fallen away under the system that the former government presided over, with the complete collapse of enterprise bargaining, and we think it is likely that the proportion of workplace arrangements governed by single-enterprise agreements would increase as a result of this legislation.