John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

in relation to people trading off their penalty rates than operates under the preferred option of the Australian Labor Party. We all know that, under the preferred contractual arrangement of the Australian Labor Party, people’s penalty rates and holiday payments can in fact be traded off for very modest amounts. I have even heard of figures under 50c being an adequate trade-off. But under our policy, there will be an independent assessment of whether there has been fair compensation. So let me say on behalf of everybody in the government that, if the government is returned, there will be no watering down of the fairness test.

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