Karen Grogan (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

That's okay! These laws came into being at the start of this month. We've started to see some improvements already. One of the latest examples—and Minister Watt referred to it in question time earlier this week—is Metcash. In South Australia they've got labour hire workers who undertake exactly the same training, go to the same meetings and are on exactly the same rosters, yet were not being paid the same amount—to the tune, for some of those workers, of $15,000 a year. That is no longer the case. Thanks to these laws that close those loopholes, there is now fairness across that site; people who are doing the same work will now get the same pay. That is all about fairness in our workplace, which is what the Albanese Labor government is all about—fair, collaborative workplaces, where we have employers, unions and workers working together for a great outcome, for fewer industrial disputes and for more harmony and fairness in our workplaces. That's what we want to see.