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This legislation does not prevent additional work, but it heavily and aggressively penalises employers who insist upon it. Notably these sorts of things can be
by anakaine 3y ago
This legislation does not prevent additional work, but it heavily and aggressively penalises employers who insist upon it. Notably these sorts of things can be prosecuted in review if it is found that there's an unrealistic expectation that employees must work outside of hours or find themselves disadvantaged.
- defrost 3y ago> but it heavily and aggressively penalises employers who insist upon it. Criminal penalties were included due to a clerical error that copypasta'd clauses from elsewhere. The opposition refused to allow an ammendment that removed those "aggressive criminal penalties" that have upset you. Blame Dutton for playing politics and knowingly choosing to keep an obvious and acknowledged mistake in play for the next election cycle rather than fix it here and now.
- anakaine 3y agoThe inclusion of criminal penalties wasn't accidental, but the wording of what can cause those penalties was not well defined, and that is what the fuss is about.
- stephen_g 3y agoDutton greatly overstates his competence to be able to do that, of course. This comes on the back of their ridiculously stupid flailing about over Stage-3 tax cuts (promising to reverse tax cuts that benefited 85% of income earners much more than their own plan, which was to mostly just give a big tax cut to the top 15% of income earners, then working out that was a dumb strategy and ending up looking like idiots walking that back and then voting for the Government's bill).