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    "content": "standards. As I second this Bill, I will just point out a few things because we are running late and we need to do other things. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Clause 40 (a) of the Bill provides that an employer who assigns to any person manual transport of agricultural goods shall ensure that such a person has the following requirements; adequate training or instructions by a qualified person and a regular medical examination to determine fitness. I do not know whether there will be some regulations to this. If there will be no regulations, then we need to add a clause that there should be a certificate to this effect because if we just say that there should be adequate training or instructions, how will we prove that there has been training if there is no occupational certificate or whatever we may chose to call it? A regular medical examination also requires that a certificate be in possession of the employer and employee. The Bill further requires that an employer who occasionally assigns manual transport to any person shall ensure that the person is given appropriate instruction in the manner in which such operations shall be carried out. I believe that under the Tripartite Pact, they should develop some manuals to guide because if left like this, there are some very rogue labour officers out there who will turn these vague laws into toll stations. They terrorize people to collect money. This country needs salvation. I was watching the television about six months ago and children of a primary school were being asked what they would like to be when they grow up. One of the children replied that when he grows up, he would like to be like Mr. Kamlesh Pattni. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you are lucky you are a young Senator. I am sure that your colleagues out there do not talk about earning money. They talk about making money. The philosophy of earning money in this country is completely dead. People only talk about making money and cutting deals. On Clause 4(c), I do not know how many of us have visited Australia. When you land at the airport and you are carrying a bag of more than 30 kilogrammes, you carry it yourself. The employees of the airline and the airport are obligated by the law not to carry a load heavier than 30 kilogrammes. They are told that if they do, and their back snaps or they suffer an injury, there is no insurance cover because that is volenti. What we call volenti non fit injuria, voluntary assumption of risk by a victim and it has no recourse to the law. If you stand in the way of the lion and it mauls you, you cannot then run and say that the owner of the lion was careless. It is good that we have stated 50 kilogrammes but in Australia, it is 30 kilogrammes. However, I believe that this is drawn from international standards. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Clause 40(d) on the manual transportation of agricultural loads by women during pregnancy and maternity is a sword that cuts going and coming. We have to put in place very stringent protection rules for women. What these fellows especially those at the Export and Processing Zone (EPZ) and flower farms that run almost like slave camps will do, is sack the pregnant women and those that have just had children because they cannot carry heavy loads instead of protecting them. This is because they have a queue of people waiting to work. We need a protection regulation. I know that the trade unions protect the workers. However, I have practiced trade union law in this country for a long time and I know that some of those trade unions are merchants themselves. They literally live on the plight of the workers they are supposed The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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