Page 2693 - Week 10 - Thursday, 15 October 1992
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Mrs Carnell: You would have to pay Annie Austin if she went off.
MR DE DOMENICO: That is right, and that is why I have moved the amendment. I invite people to support it.
MR BERRY (Minister for Health, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport) (3.38): The Government will oppose this amendment, Madam Speaker. People who are engaged under the terms described in paragraph (b) can be engaged for a long time. Why is it that people such as these are being focused upon by the Liberals to prevent them from receiving particular conditions?
Mrs Carnell: That is why you have contracts.
MR BERRY: That is exactly right. The Liberals would prefer to use people to prevent them from - - -
Mrs Carnell: No, the contractors prefer it.
MR BERRY: The Liberals seek to have an environment where more people are on contracts than on wages and salaries, and they will work to use any terms under which they can avoid these sorts of conditions. This Bill sets out to broaden the net to ensure that people on long-term arrangements are able to avail themselves of the sorts of conditions that other workers are entitled to. What the Liberals set out to do is to narrow the net. What the Government proposes is to widen the net for all sorts of people - people who might be working alongside each other in a given workplace.
Question put:
That the amendment (Mr De Domenico's) be agreed to.
The Assembly voted -
AYES, 6 NOES, 8
Mrs Carnell Mr Berry
Mr Cornwell Mr Connolly
Mr De Domenico Ms Ellis
Mr Kaine Ms Follett
Mr Stevenson Mr Lamont
Mr Westende Ms McRae
Ms Szuty
Mr Wood
Question so resolved in the negative.
MR DE DOMENICO (3.42), by leave: I move:
Page 2, definition of "parental leave", line 24, omit the following words: "including an entitlement to engage in part-time employment in connection with the birth or adoption of a child,".
Madam Speaker, once again the Bill refers to a draft parental leave clause that encompasses provisions for part-time work. This automatically institutes part-time work provisions where they previously may not have existed. It is an intrusion, once again, into the way the private sector conducts its business.
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