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

Senator KOVACIC (New South Wales) (18:54): My point of clarification—and I would like you to come back to it—is that the amendments in the House were not triggered, let's say, by the Senate inquiry. So I would like to get an understanding of when those amendments were made relative to the inquiry and the report from that inquiry. We've talked about the different work that was done and the modelling.

I'm confirming that the government didn't commission any economic modelling before introducing this bill. Could I also confirm that the government didn't model the compliance hours and costs that small businesses could potentially face under this bill?