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

Senator WATT (Queensland—Minister for the Environment and Water) (18:21): If they are the arrangements that those employees or managers are paid under, they would continue. This is this point about retrospectivity. We're not changing arrangements that exist right now.

What we're saying is that, in the future, if an employer wanted to vary an award in a way that cut penalty rates, that would not be possible to do. But, if a manager is receiving particular arrangements now under the award, that stays in place.