Bidois DanDAN BIDOIS (National—Northcote): It's a pleasure to take a call at this committee stage on the Employment Relations (Triangular Employment) Amendment Bill. I would like to thank the previous speaker for bringing us back to a rational debate here tonight which is an important debate about the economics of this bill and the impact that it has on the business community and our society as a whole. It is very clear that we are opposed to this bill. We are opposed to this bill not just because of the things that were taken into account and changed in the select committee but because we don't think it is necessary. This is a bill that was started 12 years ago and yet our society has moved on. This bill is really about flexibility. We believe on this side of the House in having a more flexible and efficient labour market and we don't think that personal grievances—in particular in Part 1 these clauses—Hon Scott Simpson: Who introduced this bill? DAN BIDOIS: Darien Fenton I believe was the—Andrew Bayly: Who's Darien? DAN BIDOIS: Darien Fenton was the author of this bill originally and then it was reincarnated in Kieran McAnulty's name. I don't think he'd read the bill at that stage but no doubt he's read it now although he didn't refer to it in his previous speech. But it is a watered-down bill and we don't believe that this bill is needed. It's going to make us less flexible in our workplace. It's all about the cumulative costs that are facing these labour hire companies that have organically grown in a free and competitive market as David Seymour the previous speaker said and there are going to be fewer opportunities in these labour hire companies because why would you go to these companies and why would these companies hire if the cumulative costs from all these changes going on in this Labour Government are going on? So to our philosophy we don't believe that these labour hire companies are evil like this Government sees them. They are providers of a huge amount of opportunity. The majority of these labour hire companies are in fact very good employers and the people—most importantly—choose this form of working for a reason: because it's flexible. Yet this Government on the other side of the House believes that they are victimised and that this clause in Part 1 is to seek to redress those victimised workers. We don't think that this bill solves a problem. There is no problem. In fact if there is a problem one thing that came from the Education and Workforce Committee is that we should license these labour hire companies and something I'm very passionate about—and we'll make sure it's a priority in our next Government post - 2020—is making sure that we look at labour hire companies and regulation and a framework to encourage this type of practice similar to what has happened in Queensland with their labour hire licensing law. To our philosophy what is in Part 1 that I disagree with and I think needs to be removed in its entirety is the lack of flexibility that this gives employers who have sought to engage these labour hire companies. It's about productivity and this bill in fact does nothing for productivity of both labour hire companies but also the companies that hire these workers or what we call secondary employers. So it is very clear and I would like to ask a question in my remaining minute around how this law will in fact reduce flexibility in the workplace. I'd like the author of this bill to address the impact that this law will have on flexibility because time and time again the feedback that we get from the member's own electorate which he doesn't represent because he's a list member is that businesses in the great electorate of Wairarapa are saying to us that that they deserve and want a flexible labour market. I would like the member in the chair Kieran McAnulty to hopefully—or not hopefully"—address that problem because that is something that's coming up within his own electorate about the businesses and the impact on productivity that it will have. We don't support this bill. We don't think it is necessary. Part 1 I think needs to be removed in its entirety. I would like the member to address how this is going to impact productivity."