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

Senator WATT (Queensland—Minister for the Environment and Water) (18:27): I've already made the point several times that it's not unusual for the Fair Work Act to provide parameters for the Fair Work Commission to make its decisions around. We're saying here that, in practice, the commission must not allow for penalty rates to be cut. That was the position we outlined before the election and that's the position we now seek to implement.