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

There's no specific clause in the bill that says, in your words, 'An employer cannot be roped into a multi-employer bargain.' That's because there are many clauses within the bill that provide a range of options for employers and employees to strike a bargain, whether that be at the enterprise level or across multiple employers or multiple enterprises. Just because there isn't a sentence to the effect that you're talking about, it doesn't preclude the range of options that individual enterprises have for reaching agreements with their workforce.