Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia's Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2021 - Senator Rennick

Senator RENNICK (Queensland) (18 March 2021, 11:26): I rise to speak on the Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2021, and it’s great to be here today, because I’m pumped. I’m usually pumped up at the best of times, but I feel like I’m a hot air balloon floating along the skies. I’ll tell you why that is: it’s because all work is 100 per cent insecure if businesses do not survive: all work is insecure if businesses do not survive, and it will be the taxpayer who picks up the cost of redundancies or unemployment benefits. Never forget: it is the employer who pays the employee; it is not the unions. Without the employer there is no employee. Do the unions pay the employee? Does the Labor Party pay the employee? No, they do not. Not only do they not pay the employee but they take from the employee. They take union fees, they take superannuation fees and, most importantly, they take jobs.

There is no greater threat to the prosperity of this nation and jobs for working Australians than the Labor Party and the union movement: union bred, union fed and union led. With their bullying, their complexities and their gouging, unions steal the jobs of Australian workers and the livelihoods of working families. Now, unbelievably, they’ve come out and said that they want to steal casual workers’ loading. Sally McManus of the ACTU has told the ABCs Insiders that casual workers would lose their casual loading in return for portable sick leave, annual leave and long service leave. Who would manage this? Some union would, of course, no doubt clipping the ticket on the money being held on behalf of the worker.

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