Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Then, and I will acknowledge this—I presume this is what the shadow minister is yelling about—for the purpose of redundancy it did acknowledge in the amendment that, even though it had changed the definition for unfair dismissal, for redundancy the number should be 15 but the definition of an effective full-time equivalent should be kept. That would have, if it had become the law of this country, changed small business redundancy entitlements so instead of being fewer than 15 on a head count it would have been fewer than 15 effective full-time equivalent employees—quite a different test—and it would have ripped redundancy entitlements off working Australians.

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