Division
The majority voted against [amendments](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2020-09-01.20.1) introduced by NSW Senator [Mehreen Faruqi](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/nsw/mehreen_faruqi) (Greens), which means they failed. Senator Faruqi [explained her amendments](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2020-09-01.20.1): > *This amends the Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020 to prevent the minister from establishing a tiered payment system. While the JobKeeper bill doesn't deal specifically with tiered payments, it does extend the rule-making power which allows the minister to establish tiers. The amendment will insert a new section that specifies that the minister must not create rules for different rates of pay for different employees.* ### Amendment text > *(1) Clause 2, page 2 (at the end of the table), add:* > > *(2) Page 33 (after line 21), at the end of the Bill, add:* > > *Schedule 7—Preventing tiered jobkeeper payments* > > *Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020* > > *1 After section 7* > > *Insert:* > > *7A Requirement for rules that provide for jobkeeper payments scheme—no tiered jobkeeper payments* > > *(1) If the rules provide for a kind of payment that is intended to assist businesses affected by the Coronavirus to cover the cost of wages of their employees (whether known as a jobkeeper payment or otherwise), the rules relating to that kind of payment (the jobkeeper scheme rules) must comply with the requirement in subsection (2).* > > *(2) The jobkeeper scheme rules, in providing for the amount of the payment under the jobkeeper scheme, must not provide for there to be different amounts payable in relation to employees.*
Senate, 2020-09-01. negative: ayes 4, noes 30.
Question
The majority voted against [amendments](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2020-09-01.20.1) introduced by NSW Senator [Mehreen Faruqi](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/nsw/mehreen_faruqi) (Greens), which means they failed. Senator Faruqi [explained her amendments](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2020-09-01.20.1): > *This amends the Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020 to prevent the minister from establishing a tiered payment system. While the JobKeeper bill doesn't deal specifically with tiered payments, it does extend the rule-making power which allows the minister to establish tiers. The amendment will insert a new section that specifies that the minister must not create rules for different rates of pay for different employees.* ### Amendment text > *(1) Clause 2, page 2 (at the end of the table), add:* > > *(2) Page 33 (after line 21), at the end of the Bill, add:* > > *Schedule 7—Preventing tiered jobkeeper payments* > > *Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020* > > *1 After section 7* > > *Insert:* > > *7A Requirement for rules that provide for jobkeeper payments scheme—no tiered jobkeeper payments* > > *(1) If the rules provide for a kind of payment that is intended to assist businesses affected by the Coronavirus to cover the cost of wages of their employees (whether known as a jobkeeper payment or otherwise), the rules relating to that kind of payment (the jobkeeper scheme rules) must comply with the requirement in subsection (2).* > > *(2) The jobkeeper scheme rules, in providing for the amount of the payment under the jobkeeper scheme, must not provide for there to be different amounts payable in relation to employees.*
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