Standing Committee on Public Accounts and Administration: Standing Committee on Public Accounts and Administration - Inquiry into the secure local jobs Code (2 November 2026, 1:02 pm)
2 November 2026
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Standing Committee on Public Accounts and Administration ACT Legislative Assembly
Follow its sittings00:03 - 00:34
Speaker 1
We welcome Ms Ashlee Berry from the Property Council of Australia coming here to give us evidence on our inquiry into Secure Local Jobs Code. We'll just run through this quickly. Please note as a witness you are protected by parliamentary privilege and bound by its obligations, you must tell the truth, giving false or misleading evidence will be treated as a serious matter and may be considered as contempt of the assembly. If you do have an opening statement, are you able to table it?
00:34 - 00:35
I don't have an opening statement, I'm happy to go straight to questions.
00:35 - 01:03
Speaker 1
You don't have one? You're happy to go straight in? All right. Well, I'll kick it off and then I'll go to Ms Clay, and then we'll finish with Ms Carrick, and we'll be giving each member a block of time to ask their questions. My, I'll start with what obligations in code section 13 to 15 add to or duplicate the national industrial law and what legal or compliance cost evidence supports your proposed changes?
01:03 - 02:17
Speaker 2
Thank you, Chair. So, if I go to number 13, clause 13 first. So, that's around, essentially, so if I take a step back, the issue that we have with those particular sections of the code, and the code in general, is that it is essentially a law that is saying, you must comply with a whole bunch of other laws, and in some parts, it actually gets quite prescriptive as to how you need to comply with those laws. And there are many various ways that you can comply with laws, but it does get quite prescriptive, and if you're a small business in particular, you are going to read that and think, "Well, this is now, you know, this is how I need to be doing something in order to comply and to get my code certification to do ACT Government work." And so, the issue around clauses 13, 14, 15 in the Secure Local Jobs Code are that they are opening up and creating what we would see as greater access to union officials above and beyond or in a different way other than what they would have under the Fair Work Act.
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