

- Title
WORKPLACE RELATIONS AMENDMENT (FAIR DISMISSAL) BILL 2002 [NO. 2]
In Committee
- Database
Senate Hansard
- Date
03-03-2003
- Source
Senate
- Parl No.
40
- Electorate
Western Australia
- Interjector
- Page
8901
- Party
LP
- Presenter
- Status
Final
- Question No.
- Questioner
- Responder
- Speaker
Campbell, Sen Ian
- Stage
In Committee
- Type
- Context
Bills
- System Id
chamber/hansards/2003-03-03/0140
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Hansard
- Start of Business
- REPRESENTATION OF AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
- SENATORS SWORN
- BUSINESS
- WORKPLACE RELATIONS AMENDMENT (FAIR DISMISSAL) BILL 2002 [NO. 2]
- MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS
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QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
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Centrelink: Family Payments
(Bishop, Sen Mark, Vanstone, Sen Amanda) -
Health: Policy
(Humphries, Sen Gary, Patterson, Sen Kay) -
Centrelink: Family Payments
(Collins, Sen Jacinta, Vanstone, Sen Amanda) -
Health: Tough on Drugs Strategy
(Tierney, Sen John, Ellison, Sen Chris) -
Centrelink: Family Payments
(Faulkner, Sen John, Vanstone, Sen Amanda) -
Iraq
(Bartlett, Sen Andrew, Hill, Sen Robert) -
Centrelink: Family Payments
(Webber, Sen Ruth, Vanstone, Sen Amanda) -
Howard Government: Policies
(Brown, Sen Bob, Minchin, Sen Nick) -
Business: Executive Remuneration
(Conroy, Sen Stephen, Coonan, Sen Helen) -
Australian Industry Development Corporation
(Brandis, Sen George, Minchin, Sen Nick) -
Business: Executive Remuneration
(Conroy, Sen Stephen, Coonan, Sen Helen) -
Medicare: Bulk-Billing
(Allison, Sen Lyn, Patterson, Sen Kay)
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Centrelink: Family Payments
- QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE: ADDITIONAL ANSWERS
- QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE: TAKE NOTE OF ANSWERS
- PETITIONS
- NOTICES
- AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY
- NOTICES
- COMMITTEES
- LEAVE OF ABSENCE
- NOTICES
- FOREIGN AFFAIRS: COLOMBIA
- MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS
- SOUTH AUSTRALIA: NATIONAL RADIOACTIVE WASTE REPOSITORY
- DOCUMENTS
- PARLIAMENTARY ZONE
- RENEWABLE ENERGY (ELECTRICITY) AMENDMENT BILL 2002
- BUDGET
- COMMITTEES
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AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY CHEMICALS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL 2002
CORPORATIONS AMENDMENT (REPAYMENT OF DIRECTORS' BONUSES) BILL 2002
SNOWY HYDRO CORPORATISATION AMENDMENT BILL 2002
SEX DISCRIMINATION AMENDMENT (PREGNANCY AND WORK) BILL 2002
WORKPLACE RELATIONS AMENDMENT (PROHIBITION OF COMPULSORY UNION FEES) BILL 2002 [NO. 2]
CUSTOMS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL (NO. 2) 2002
AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FORESTRY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL (NO. 2) 2002 -
NEW BUSINESS TAX SYSTEM (CONSOLIDATION AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL (NO. 2) 2002
NEW BUSINESS TAX SYSTEM (VENTURE CAPITAL DEFICIT TAX) BILL 2002 -
MIGRATION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (CONTRIBUTORY PARENTS MIGRATION SCHEME) BILL 2002
MIGRATION (VISA APPLICATION) CHARGE AMENDMENT BILL 2002 - BILLS RETURNED FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF TAXATION BILL 2002
- COMMITTEES
- WORKPLACE RELATIONS AMENDMENT (FAIR DISMISSAL) BILL 2002 [NO. 2]
- TRADE PRACTICES AMENDMENT (SMALL BUSINESS PROTECTION) BILL 2002 [NO. 2]
- NATIONAL HEALTH AMENDMENT (PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS— BUDGET MEASURES) BILL 2002 [NO. 2]
- ADJOURNMENT
- DOCUMENTS
- PROCLAMATIONS
Page: 8901
Senator IAN CAMPBELL (Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer) (6:25 PM)
—The government agrees with the opposition that reinstatement should in fact be the primary remedy, and the act already makes reinstatement the primary remedy. The government, however, believes that the way the amendment proposes to upgrade that fails to recognise the reality, particularly in small business, that reinstatement may not be an appropriate remedy because the employment relationship may well have broken down in such a way that it was not able to be put back together again. I think it is fair to say that, in small businesses, often employers and employees are working closely together, often in the same room or sharing the same counter—or even in the same coolroom, Senator Murray—and that, where the relationship has broken down irreconcilably, forcing a reinstatement may not be in the best interests of anybody. So we think the act at the moment strikes the right balance and we seek to maintain that.