Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025

Senator WATT (Queensland—Minister for the Environment and Water) (11:25): Again, even if this legislation were not to be introduced, unions and employers groups could bring applications to the commission to vary the terms of an award. They can do that now. Those changes operate prospectively. Wage rates and other conditions are changed prospectively rather than retrospectively, and that's the same here.