Page 2567 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 13 October 1992
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MRS CARNELL: Yes, I would, because at the end of the day I keep operating only if I make a profit and therefore can pay my other staff. That is absolutely true. If you do not make a profit you do not pay your staff. It is quite simple.
Ms Szuty mentioned the training guarantee levy. That is $200,000 a year. Think of that. We are talking about milk bars with possibly two or three full-timers and a number of casuals. There is no way that their wage bill is $200,000. There is no way that the vast percentage of people who will be covered by this amendment could be in that bracket. It is new expense, and it is new expense that cannot be afforded by just about everyone. It is also an amendment that has absolutely no figures to back it up. We have no idea of how many accidents, except mine, actually happen in that group; no figures at all. With no figures, no backup, you go down a track of introducing an amendment that will cost small businesses - and we are talking about really small businesses - many thousands of dollars. If that is how you think you create jobs for our young people and our women, I am not surprised at the figures that were released last week.
Mr Lamont: Madam Speaker, I move, pursuant to the appropriate standing order, that Mrs Carnell table the document that she has just been quoting from.
MRS CARNELL: Fine.
MADAM SPEAKER: She sought to do that before. Mrs Carnell needs leave to table the document.
Leave granted.
Debate (on motion by Mr Lamont) adjourned.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Berry) agreed to:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Assembly adjourned at 5.08 pm
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