Page 4953 - Week 13 - Thursday, 12 November 2009
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The Assembly voted—
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Ayes 8 |
Noes 3 | ||
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Mr Barr |
Ms Hunter |
Mr Doszpot | |
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Ms Bresnan |
Ms Le Couteur |
Mrs Dunne | |
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Ms Burch |
Mr Rattenbury |
Mr Seselja | |
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Mr Corbell |
Mr Stanhope | ||
Question so resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Detail stage
Clauses 1 to 8, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Clause 9.
MS BURCH (Brindabella—Minister for Disability, Housing and Community Services, Minister for Ageing, Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Minister for Women) (12.25): Pursuant to standing order 182A(b), I seek leave to move an amendment in Ms Gallagher’s name to this clause as it is minor and technical in nature.
Leave granted.
MS BURCH: I move amendment No 1 circulated in Ms Gallagher’s name [see schedule 1 at page 5010].
I table a supplementary explanatory statement to the government amendment. This amendment removes paragraph (3) of clause 2A.7 of the bill to enable the Long Service Leave Authority to reimburse the employer after a total period of five years pre and post the scheme rather than after seven years, consistent with the 1976 act. Community sector organisations have expressed concerns about incurring a double payment where an employee is entitled to long service leave after five years and the organisation is required to make a payment. In order to make this administratively efficient, the government identified a need to remove paragraph (3) of clause 2A.7 of the bill to enable the authority to reimburse the employer after a total period of five years pre and post the scheme rather than after seven years, consistent with the 1976 act.
MS HUNTER (Ginninderra—Parliamentary Convenor, ACT Greens) (12.27): It is the Greens’ understanding that the removal of paragraph (3) of clause 2A.7, which is in section 9, is in response to concerns voiced by community sector employees regarding entitlement payments due before the commencement of the scheme and payments that will be due after commencement of the scheme. The sector communicated that this section of the act was unclear in its wording and unnecessarily confusing. Therefore the Greens will support the removal of paragraph (3) of clause 2A.7.
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