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

Senator WATT (Queensland—Minister for the Environment and Water) (11:33): This goes to this point about retrospectivity. I think the concern that you're expressing is that, if an award has previously been altered to reduce penalty rates, there might be some ability through this legislation to rectify that, to change that. That is not possible under this legislation.

It's about what the current terms are in an award, what they say about penalty rates and not allowing those penalty rates in the current award to be cut.