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

Senator KOVACIC (New South Wales) (19:06): I guess I haven't met many shy people in this place, so I'm sure that that's not a surprise at all. Perhaps I'm not articulating myself properly. Through this bill, the government is giving the Fair Work Commission a directive, as opposed to letting them use fair and reasonable measures of their own judgement, yet you can't explain how they're going to be directed.

That's confusing to me. And I guess it's confusing to the employer groups and the others that provided evidence in the Senate inquiry that suggests that this could potentially be problematic.