Bidois DanDAN BIDOIS (National—Northcote): It's a pleasure to rise this evening in opposition to the Employment Relations (Triangular Employment) Amendment Bill a bill that was drafted in 2007—12 years ago. Yet the world has moved on and I don't think this bill reflects the scale that this world has moved on that we have seen in the last 12 years. Just to give you a sense of the perspective 12 years ago the iPhone was launched. Think about the dramatic changes that we've seen in technology over the past 12 years. That bill was written the year the iPhone was made and unfortunately this bill is not fit for purpose and that's why the National Party is opposed to this bill.We're opposed to this bill because fundamentally this is going to destroy the labour hire industry. It is also going to remove flexibility from not only employers but the very vulnerable people that that side of the House claims to represent. It's going to increase costs for business and these costs are going to be passed on to customers. Most fundamentally it takes us backwards. When the world has moved on this legislation takes us back to the age of unions and that's why we're fundamentally opposed.But don't take my word for it—let's look at the submissions that were made during this process. This bill will kill the industry." said Roana from the Shamrock Recruitment Group in the select committee process. "This bill will increase the cost of doing business." said Simon from AWF Madison. "This bill will hurt the majority who are good employers and good contractors." said—Hon Iain Lees-Galloway: How?DAN BIDOIS: —you read the submission—Alan from ELE Ltd. "This bill only benefits unions and firms won't hire these workers because they're going to be more expensive as a result." and that came from Business New Zealand. "There are going to be fewer opportunities because it's going to be more expensive and it's going to slow down the productivity of small to medium sized enterprises in this process." said Max from the Whitehead Group in the select committee process.The majority of employers and the majority of contractors are good contractors. Most of these contractors and labour hire companies don't tolerate the exploitation and the flexibility is the key to this industry. We've heard it loud and clear throughout the process for the Education and Workforce Committee that firms want the ability to be consistent with their demand throughout the year. Worker choice is going to be affected because of the number of people that choose to go into the labour hire industry. We just have to look at some research. I mean there's research coming out from Uber which is in a gig economy - type operation. Research from Uber in Australia indicates that 78 percent of Uber drivers choose that job because it's flexible that three out of five workers would not do it without that level of flexibility and that half of Uber drivers that were polled in this research have kids and family with children under 18.So the number of people that choose this genuinely for the flexibility that labour hire offers—and in terms of the elderly women students and entrepreneurs they all desire that greater level of flexibility in this job environment. Flexibility drives job satisfaction. We hear all the time about well-being over on that side of the House. Well job satisfaction is a key input for well-being and that is why from the Education and Workforce Committee we heard that 80 percent of the workers that go into this industry end up with a full-time job at the end of it.So the question that I ask is: what is this bill trying to solve? What is the problem that this bill is trying to solve? We've heard it from the member himself. He said there are rogue operators out there. But this bill said many submitters in this process does not lead to the solution of these rogue operators. We should license this industry. We should destroy these rogue operators and send a clear message that if you are to go away from or disrespect your workers then you will be caught you will be fined and you will be outed. That is what Queensland did most recently by passing the Labour Hire Licensing Act that was mentioned in the select committee process. Now under this Act firms that use labour hire must be licensed. Now if you are mishandling workers you're fined up to $400000 and they've got a beefed-up inspectorate as well. So there are other ways that we could have resolved the issue and challenges of rogue operators without resorting to this bill.In summary let us discuss and build laws for the future of work not for the memorabilia of the past. Thank you."