Fair Pay Agreements Act Repeal Bill

I present to the House a legislative statement on the Fair Pay Agreements Act Repeal Bill.

ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Maureen Pugh): That legislative statement is published under the authority of the House and can be found on the Parliament website.

I move, That the Fair Pay Agreements Act Repeal Bill be now read a first time.

The Fair Pay Agreements Act Repeal Bill repeals the Fair Pay Agreements Act and associated amendments to other Acts, and revokes associated regulations. Once the Fair Pay Agreements Act is repealed, bargaining for initiated fair pay agreements will cease as there will be no legislative mechanism to bring any agreements into force.

My clear intention with this repeal bill is for the fair pay agreement system to stop. I want to make that very clear: it is for the fair pay agreement system to stop and for all bargaining processes to cease. Fair pay agreements were never about fairness. They forced a minority of union workers’ views on all affected workers and all affected businesses within an industry. The previous Government introduced legislation in 2022 for the fair pay agreement system. Under this system, unions and employer associations could bargain for employment terms and conditions that covered all employees in an industry or an occupation.

The Fair Pay Agreements Act and associated regulations came into force on 1 December 2022. The National Party and the ACT Party opposed the development and introduction of the fair pay agreement legislation, and this repeal has been well signalled—very, very clearly signalled—through the entire campaign period, through the coalition agreements, and through the 100-day plan of this Government. We have a clear mandate from the voters to do this.

This Government has committed to repealing the fair pay agreement legislation by Christmas 2023 as part of the coalition agreement between the National Party and the ACT Party, and I am committed to acting quickly to remove this legislation before any fair pay agreements are finalised and the transition arrangements become more expensive and more complex. We are doing this bill to send a clear signal to businesses that this Government understands the pressures that businesses have faced in an environment of increasing inflation and a Labour-led Government that has piled on regulations on to businesses that are finding it a struggle to cope. Today, this Government is providing certainty to businesses so they can get back to focusing on what they do best.

Fair pay agreements require all employers within coverage to offer the same minimum terms and conditions. This leads to a rigid, one-size-fits-all agreement. Businesses need the flexibility to innovate if New Zealand is going to compete on the world stage. Workplaces need flexibility. This is something that’s becoming an increasing priority for workers, especially workers seeking better work-life balance. Fair pay agreements restrict the flexibility that both workers and employers want in today’s rapidly changing workplace.

Fair pay agreements also risk harming New Zealand’s already dismal productivity growth. The best and the most sustainable way to increase the wages of workers and to lower prices for consumers is to improve productivity and reduce the regulations holding businesses back. Fair pay agreements just diminish the fundamental right to freedom of association, which includes the freedom to not associate. The most important thing to know about the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s regulatory impact statement from 2021 is that they recommended against—

ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Maureen Pugh): I’m sorry to interrupt the member, but the Clerks are having trouble with the audio and cannot hear the Minister. So could I ask for a bit of silence on this side. Thank you. Please.

Thank you. The most important thing to note about the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s regulatory impact statement that was produced in 2021 on the Fair Pay Agreements Act is that the ministry recommended against introducing fair pay agreements. They argued that the improvements for employees would be marginal at best and would achieve this at a significant cost to employer flexibility.

The fair pay agreements could lead to worse outcomes for workers by raising the costs of doing business. If bargained wage increases meant businesses cannot remain competitive, the fair pay agreements would have resulted in lower employment or reduced hours of work—which is not good for workers in our economy. This Government supports higher wages and better conditions for workers, especially during a cost of living crisis. But if fair pay agreements had been finalised, the costs of doing business would have increased across the board, which means the prices of goods and services for businesses would be likely to rise too. That’s not good for businesses, consumers, or workers.

No workers—and I want to make this very clear: no workers—will have their wages cut or be worse off compared with the status quo, because no fair pay agreements have been signed or finalised. There have been six fair pay agreements that have been initiated since the fair pay agreement legislation came into force. However, all are in the very early stages of bargaining. No agreements have been finalised in any industry or any occupation. As no agreements have been finalised in any industry or occupation, there are no transitional arrangements required for the fair pay agreements that have been initiated.

We are a Government that wants to see higher wages for workers; we want to see a thriving, competitive business sector; we want to see more and better jobs in our economy; and we want to ease the pain of the cost of living crisis. But the fair pay agreements would have done so much more damage than any betterment to the economy and to the labour market. Far from being fair or even being about pay, the fair pay agreements were about harming the very workers they were meant to help. That is why this Government has opposed it and why we have brought this bill to repeal the Fair Pay Agreements Act to Parliament. I commend the bill to the House.

Thank you, Madam Speaker, and congratulations on your new role.

This is a very sad day for this Parliament. This morning, I greeted some workers on the forecourt of Parliament. I greeted workers who worked in the early childhood sector, I greeted people who worked in the supermarket sector, I greeted security guards, cleaners—people that would have benefited from fair pay agreements. I received a petition of 15,000 people who opposed what this Government is doing.

All of these people understand that fair pay agreements were a way forward for New Zealand to address the embarrassing low productivity that we have and that has gone on for a number of years, and also the low-wage economy that we have had for a number of years. Those people understood that in order for us all to succeed, we need to have secure work, we need to have high wages, we need to have fair conditions, we need to have safe workplaces. Fair pay agreements would have been the mechanism to achieve these goals in New Zealand, and those things are sorely needed.

This Government has shown its true colours in these last few days. The first thing they did was to attack jobs, with the repeal of the dual mandate. The next thing they did was to repeal the fair pay agreements—to attack wages and conditions that working people would like to see in their workplaces, that would have helped New Zealand.

The Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety has been questioned regularly about the advice that she’s received, and it’s quite obvious from the speech that she has just given that her answers, in the sense that she hasn’t had any advice, are correct, because none of her explanation as to why fair pay agreements need to be repealed is actually backed up by evidence.

I want to address this issue, because we’re going to spend a long time on what is an issue that I find very, very interesting and have spent a long time in my life looking at. So one of the issues I want to address early on is the issue that the Government seemed to say that just because they had something in their election manifesto, it means that, somehow, they can come to this Parliament, they can dispense with the usual norms of lawmaking and scrutiny which are usual, like select committee processes, and use urgency.

💬 Hon Member: You used it.

They say—well, yes, the Labour Government used urgency. Yes, we did. But there should always be a justification and reason, and a good reason, for urgency, and there isn’t one in this instance.

As the Minister has said, none of the fair pay agreements that we are looking at have actually been initiated yet. So why is this Government prioritising taking away rights for fair pay, for fair conditions of working people before Christmas? Why is this a priority of this Government? I will answer that question. The reason is because they are an anti-worker Government. They don’t stand with working people. They stand against working people, and that’s why they’re repealing this piece of legislation.

Two hundred thousand to 300,000 working people stood to benefit from fair pay agreements. I want to go through each of the industries that have actually initiated fair pay agreements, so that the people on the other side of this House know, and the public of New Zealand know, who this Government is targeting and who they stand against. The people that this fair pay agreements bill will hurt the most are bus drivers. They are people in the hospitality industry. They are security guards. They are commercial cleaners. They are early childhood education workers that teach our most precious children and have such an important role in the first thousand days, as we’ve heard. They are supermarket workers—our essential workers that got us through COVID-19.

It is absolutely unconscionable that this Government is prioritising taking away rights from these vulnerable low-paid workers before Christmas. They should be ashamed of themselves. Let me tell those on the other side of the House: you are on the wrong side of history. You will look back and your children will look back at this day and they will think, “I wish we’d had industry-level bargaining earlier, because we can see—now that the 2026 Labour Government has implemented it—the gains that that has made for productivity, the gains that that has made for workplace safety, the gains that that has made for wages, how people feel secure in their work.”

This bill is a disgrace, and I do not support it.

The question is that the motion be agreed to.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. In a word: gutted—gutted by this piece of legislation, gutted for the workers. I was also out on the steps of Parliament talking with workers: supermarket workers and early childhood education (ECE) workers, who are good, salt of the earth people. What I would say in terms of the speech that we just heard from the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety is this: she should climb out of the ivory tower of right-wing economic fundamentalism, and talk to the people. Talk to the people—talk to the people.

I joined the picket, last week, of ECE teachers. It has been acknowledged across the House, on both sides of the House, that there are serious issues in terms of pay parity within the ECE sector—the ECE sector. These fair pay agreements would go a long way with making sure that we address those parity issues. Fair pay agreements would have put more money in the pockets of people teaching our mokopuna, keeping our hospitals clean and safe, stocking the supermarket shelves, and getting us around on the bus. It takes a particularly callous Government to turn its backs on the people who do so much for our communities. These are thousands of people who will be forced to work two or three days just to make ends meet.

The other thing which is particularly appalling about this piece of legislation is the proximity to Christmas. We’re two weeks out from Christmas, and what we have is a Government which is addicted to cancel culture. I thought they didn’t like cancel culture, but here they are. They’re cancelling climate action, cancelling te reo Māori, and here they are cancelling Christmas for the workers. Nothing but ciggies under the Christmas tree for the workers this Christmas, and what a shocker that is.

I want to acknowledge all the work that the workers have been putting in, and their unions. I know they’ve been putting a lot of the hard yards ever since this piece of legislation has gotten over the line: working with their people, understanding the different conditions. I remember I went for a walk with some of the workers, and we went and talked with the different security guards in my town of Palmerston North, and they were talking about labour flexibility. If you are stuck in one job and you want to move to another one but they’ve got completely different working conditions and pay rates, it makes it very difficult for them to move from that worksite to another. Fair pay agreements would have helped to address that. Fair pay agreements would have helped to create a floor in order for people to actually work together to make fairer working conditions for workers.

The other thing that I would like to note as well is the number of leaked documents coming out of this Government. Somebody’s not happy on that side of the House. They like to point the finger at the workers but maybe it is one of their coalition partners—who knows? But what it did say is that by repealing this legislation, it’s going to make working people’s lives harder. It’s going to make workers’ lives harder. In particular, it’s going to make work harder for women, harder for young people, harder for our Māori workers, and harder for our Pasifika workers as well. Those people that do the hard yards. Those people that stock our supermarket shelves, that clean our offices, that move us around on the buses, that take care of our mokopuna. This House should have those workers at the front of mind whenever they move legislation through the House. This House needs to be focusing on what it needs to do to improve the working lives of those workers.

The Greens will always be on the side of the workers, and, in this particular case, we are absolutely gutted and appalled that this Government is pulling this move this close to Christmas, casting uncertainty on to hundreds and thousands of working people’s lives. So you will see, through the course of this debate, calls from the Greens to highlight the very specific lives of working people, people that stock those supermarket shelves. Let’s remember: when we were moving through the pandemic, we called them essential workers—we called them essential workers. I say this to the workers: you were essential then; you are essential now—you were essential then; you are essential now.

Members on this side of the House will continue to speak up for workers, will continue to speak up for working people. Thank you, Madam Speaker.

I am pleased to be speaking on the Fair Pay Agreements Act Repeal Bill. I’d first like to take the opportunity to congratulate the Minister, the Hon Nicola Willis, on her appointment to her role as Minister. I’m proud to be a member of the National Party and this coalition, which is acting at great pace to repeal many expensive and complex Acts that we have not seen make a great deal of difference and that would go on to overcomplicate relationships between employers and employees.

Members opposite are forgetting that we represent the majority, and we also speak to our constituents. I speak to our constituents all the time, many and most of whom are workers, and I can tell you, whether it’s hospitality workers or bus drivers, they are not looking forward to losing the relationship they have with their employer and having that taken away and put into the arms of a union.

We need to repeal this Act so that we can leave flexibility with the employer and the employee, and give them greater control over the relationship they have. I can tell you that staff are very worried about this, and I look very much forward to supporting this through. I say on our behalf that we commend this bill to the House.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Congratulations on your appointment to the Chair, too—my first chance to have a contribution under your stewardship.

New Zealand First rises to support the Fair Pay Agreements Act Repeal Bill. New Zealand First has always taken a very balanced view on employment relations. In the last two coalition agreements that we’ve been part of forming, increases to the minimum wage have always been a feature that we have stuck out for. We do recognise the work especially of those blue-collar workers that do the hard yards, and they deserve to have a fair minimum wage.

But the issue around that balance is that you have to have someone that’s prepared to employ you. You have to have someone that’s prepared to risk their capital, risk their house, risk their livelihoods, and put it all on the line to take someone on and have that responsibility of providing a living for someone else. We think this is quite a nuanced debate; this is kind of a circular argument. We actually will only drive wages if we can build our economy. The reason why we’re slipping so far behind Australia is because of our productivity—because we have wrapped ourselves in red tape and will not allow ourselves access to our natural resources, in many cases. So that is the bigger question at play here, but we will support this bill through the first reading. Thank you, Madam Speaker.

Tēnā koe e te Pīka. Tēnā tātau e te Whare. We will be strongly opposing this bill and this Government that appears to be anti-Māori, anti-Pasifika, anti - everything involving grassroots people, and anti-workers, and continuing to stand up and speak against this “three Scrooges” coalition.

It’s disappointing that I stand on behalf of our party to speak to this reading of the Fair Pay Agreements Act Repeal Bill. I was proud to stand with the workers and the unions outside this House today to send a clear message to this Government that they are trampling on the rights of working people in Aotearoa—the same working people who held this country up during the COVID, the same people that kept the communities going on the front line.

This bill, like a lot of things that you’re doing in the last couple of weeks, is taking us back years. But I can zone it down to 30 years, to a dark time in the history of workplace relations. I can speak from my own experience as a daughter of a freezing worker who was laid off in Pātea in the 1990s and the massive onslaught against workers at the time as a core part of the neoliberal economic experiment that National and Labour dragged our people through. What we are seeing in this bill today is a repeat of what we saw then. Rather than giving workers the space to push the ceiling and fight for great pay, they are once again struggling and having to defend the floor and hold on to fair play.

It’s disgraceful that this Government is doing that, and you should be ashamed of yourselves and what you are delivering—

ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Maureen Pugh): I am not ashamed of myself—

—to our whānau just before Christmas. You’re not ashamed of anything.

ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Maureen Pugh): Can I just remind the member—[Interruption]. Excuse me. Can I just remind the member not to bring the Speaker into the debate.

Thank you for the reminder. My apologies. It is disgraceful and we are ashamed of what we are finding our Government doing at this time. We are playing a zero-sum game. You cannot achieve real productivity and prosperity without ensuring your workers are paid well and have proper working conditions to be able to contribute to thriving and well families. Achieving success relies on bringing your whole team with you, not using and abusing those with less power than you so that you at the top can get ahead.

I want to use this opportunity in this first reading to say how disgusting it is that the Government is pushing through this bill under urgency. Usually, at this stage, we would be able to reflect and bring about a select committee process—things that I’ve heard members of this Government fight for in the 53rd Parliament—considering and providing the opportunity for submissions and fair opportunities for the public to address and then also seek report-backs from the committees. The select committees are a vital part of our democratic process, which you are so precious about—I beg your pardon—which the Government is so precious about protecting; they are a check on the power of the executive.

In Aotearoa, we have far too few checks and balances compared with other countries. Allowing the public to be heard is a bare minimum that the Government is proving once again they don’t care about. With this bill, we should have had the chance to hear from unions, from those that we saw here this morning, from workers, from employment relations, experts, and, yes, from businesses too. Denying them the right to submit on the laws of this land is a breach of fundamental democratic rights that we should uphold dearly, as we are reminded often in this country. The supermarket workers and the bus drivers that I spoke with outside the forecourt today had so much to say that this Government needs to hear. My goodness, we are now meeting protests and receiving petitions at least two to three times a day. How much more do we have to contend with?

To members on the Government benches—to know what it is like to be on the front line of pandemic as essential workers. Do you remember what it was like to receive and remember the exposure and fearing for your health that a lot of our front-line workers had to endure? Do you remember and know what it’s like to take a four-hour break in the middle of the day and then be expected to come back and work a long shift later the same day? Do you know what it’s like to be in the 60s and 70s of age, still having dependent people and still earning an unlivable wage?

I seriously doubt that members opposite know any of these realities, but those are the realities this bill is seeking and the parties on that side of the House should be ashamed of themselves. Kia ora rā.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. This bill is of particular interest to me, given my actual experience in supporting employers to grow and employ more people throughout my career.

During the campaign, I spoke to many concerned employers and employees about the impact of fair pay agreements (FPAs) on business sustainability and employee opportunities. FPAs are a blunt tool initiated by unions and a small number of employees, yet they apply to every employee and employer in an industry or occupation, regardless of whether or not they want it or want to be included. Businesses need flexibility to innovate, and FPAs restrict the flexibility both employers and employees want.

As part of this Government’s 100-day plan to get New Zealand back on track, I commend this bill to the House.

Well, it was great to hear about all the experience that the member Carl Bates had, which was absolutely nothing. So thank you for that nothing contribution.

I want to inform the House that I’ve got a lot of experience in this area too. Like Debbie Packer’s whānau, I was also in the freezing works in 1991 when, sadly, Jim Bolger and his horrible voluntary unionism set-up came out. It’s a sad thing, really, about Jim Bolger, but he came right in later years by supporting the Treaty of Waitangi, unlike the rest of this useless National Party and the hopeless ACT Party and the New Zealand First lot who’ve forgotten their roots, sadly.

In 1991, the whole line, the whole thought was “We need more productivity. It’s all about market flexibility.” So we had to ask ourselves, “What the heck is market flexibility? What does that mean?” Well, I’ll tell you what that meant. It meant they just wanted us to work more and more and more for bugger all. That’s what that became. So market flexibility was workers work more and more and more and you get more productivity, the company does well, but the workers miss out altogether. That’s what market flexibility was under a National Government with Ruth Richardson and Jim Bolger. As I said, Jim came right later on; sadly, Ruth Richardson didn’t. Most of the National Party of that time was all about suppressing workers’ rights. At the time, we had a huge membership in terms of unions. Sadly, I think that came down to about 20 percent.

The basic thrust of that was to get the workers working, as I said, at 100 percent but also this whole facade about bargaining. You know, the whole view was an individual could negotiate for themselves. That’s the thrust of all this legislation: “You’re a strong individual. You can do the business.” But people know in the House, and if you’ve worked in the unions and if you’ve worked on the factory floor, which most of that lot haven’t—most of them wouldn’t even know what a factory was. If you’ve worked on the factory floor, you know that you can’t negotiate because there’s a total imbalance in terms of bargaining power. So the whole notion that individuals have a right and have a chance to negotiate is just a load of nonsense. The bosses, sadly, through the years, have picked off people, and people have been lost. So that’s been the strength of the unions. The unions have been able to negotiate on behalf of the individual.

This fair pay agreement kaupapa has been something that we as a party and we as a former Government were very proud of—very proud of—because it gave workers hope. Workers in the hospitality area, workers in the security area, bus drivers—these are the forgotten people of this country—

💬 Hon Priyanca Radhakrishnan: We call them essential workers.

—the essential workers. These are the people who National and ACT don’t care about. They don’t give a damn about them. It’s really sad. To see a new Minister going down this track is really, really disappointing.

And I want to thank Michael Wood for the work he did in terms of putting this together. It was one of our proudest moments to have this fair bargaining kaupapa put in place, and repealing this initiative is nothing but an attack on some of our most valuable jobs and some of our most vulnerable workers. These Kiwis were the ones who worked through COVID while the rest of us stayed home. Why are we punishing them now through this just before Christmas?

The fair pay agreements are something that’s so valuable for them. It’s given them hope in terms of their agreements. It’s not the agreement but it’s something that recognises their rights, recognises their health areas, recognises the special specifications for Māori workers. I know that upsets ACT because they’re always booting Māori in the guts, and New Zealand First, sadly, have been supporting them, and National too. But Māori get special recognition in terms of fair bargaining, and so I was really proud of what we were able to put in place, put our frameworks in place, but for it all to be repealed before Christmas is one of the saddest strategies I’ve ever seen from any Government over the years, and the National Party, New Zealand First, and ACT should hang their heads in shame.

Madam Speaker, I’d just like to first of all start off by congratulating you on taking your role. It’s great to see someone from the rural sector in such a fine position. Thank you.

The reason this Act needs to be repealed is very simple—the fair pay agreements—all it does is take us back. I’ve sat in this House for the last few days and all I’ve heard is about going back. Well, if anything’s going to take us back to the 1970s and 1980s, it’s this Act, because all it’s going to do—the long game here is very simple. It’s to create a situation whereby we end up with nationwide strikes and very little productivity because nothing gets done. And those of us who lived through those times remember the damage that did to our businesses, particularly the farming businesses and the freezing works you talked of, because, ultimately, they couldn’t produce because no one was at work. So I would commend this bill to the House. Thank you.

That was the biggest load of rubbish I’ve heard in a really long time, and there’s been quite a lot of rubbish spoken in this House. So what I’d like to speak to is the words of Brooke van Velden that have been haunting this House and have made me recall back, actually, right back into the 1990s, and those words were that no workers will be any worse off without fair pay agreements.

What that reminded me of was back to the Employment Contracts Act 1991, when I was a supermarket worker. In those days, my hourly rate was $4.20 an hour, which doesn’t sound like much, but when you’re 16 and you get paid penal rates at the weekend—double time—$8.40 is not a bad wage. On top of that, you would get an allowance for a meal break, so that actually made it worth turning up to work and it gave you a bit of money.

But when the Employment Contracts Act came in, when they asked us to sign, they said those same words—that no worker would be worse off if they sign this contract—and do you know what? We bloody well were, because each time I got a pay increase, there was something in my pay called a personalised difference, and when my hourly rate went up, my penal rates disappeared and my allowances disappeared, and it took me three years, until I was 19 years old, to earn the same amount of money I was earning as a 16-year-old.

That is the same mentality that is being applied to our workers here in New Zealand. It won’t be any worse off, but it damned well won’t be any better either, and who benefits from that? It’s those people creaming it at the top while our essential workers are slogging their guts out every day, teaching our kids, cleaning our floors, driving our buses. They want to skim that money off and keep it in their own pockets, and that’s what I say is unfair and damn right shameful and selfish.

So when the Employment Contracts Act came in, we have taken a long time to make gains in it, and I want to correct a couple of misinformation points that have been put across in this House today. The number one that’s really important is productivity—what the last speaker, Grant McCallum, has said, which was that this piece of legislation, before it was repealed, would hamper or impede productivity. Well, the OECD and a lot of those people who have done research—including the Rt Hon Jim Bolger—have been on the page of saying that this would be good for New Zealand’s productivity. The key reason for that is it stops the race to the bottom. It stops those bad employers and disincentivises bad employment conditions and poor wages, and it rewards those good employers who care about their employees, who pay them a decent wage. They get benefits for that—they get benefits for that—because they get good quality products and they get higher intellectual property. We get great products that we can sell and have innovation across the world and be known for our number eight wire mentality that distinguishes New Zealand from other countries.

But those opposite want to take us back to 1991. They’re not interested in being cutting edge. They’re not interested in using our brains and our smarts to put ourselves further. They’re going to take us back and they’re going to take the money off those people who were essential workers when we needed them the most.

That’s what really disappoints me, because if we incentivise our employers to be good employers, then the competition is who’s got the best—who’s got the best product, who’s got the most innovative way of doing it—not who can be the quickest one to race to the bottom to pay workers the least, to be giving them poorer conditions in order to be making your profit margin larger. That’s the kind of playing field that this Government has drawn up for New Zealand workers, and that is what is so unfair about repealing something that would actually increase productivity and reward those employers that take good, hard-working New Zealanders for what they are—that they’re an asset to their business, not a detriment.

So I would like to just round off by saying that during the times of COVID, I heard so many speeches from the National Party about how important our essential workers were, thanking them for their hours, thanking them for the difficulties, and thanking them for how they went above and beyond to serve us when we needed it, and now they turn their back on those workers by giving them less, right before Christmas. It’s an absolute bloody disgrace and I hope that they live to see what will happen, and that will be workers of New Zealand who stand up and fight back for behaviour that is selfish and self-serving.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I’m particularly pleased that my first opportunity to speak in this Chamber is in support of the removal of regulations that will hinder the community that I represent; that’s the Wairarapa electorate. Businesses across the districts of Central Hawke’s Bay, Tararua, Masterton, Carterton, and South Wairarapa are struggling under the weight of legislation that the last Government introduced. My electorate is driven by farming and multiple small and medium family-owned businesses that are often operating on very small margins. They’re much more vulnerable to ill-thought-through legislation than larger businesses. Small businesses in our electorate are embedded in their local communities, employing local people, supporting local. The cost of living crisis is driving them into the ground. When they suffer, the wider community suffers. I urge all members of this House to support the repeal of the Fair Pay Agreements Act.

This bill is set down for second reading immediately.

Second Reading