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• Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Protecting Worker Entitlements) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: provide that a breach of the

  Migration Act 1958

  does not affect the validity of a contract of employment or contract for services for the purposes of the Act; enable employees to take up to 100 days of flexible unpaid parental leave (UPL); enable employees to commence UPL at any time in the 24 months following the birth or placement of their child; enable employee couples to take UPL at the same time; allow pregnant employees to access flexible UPL in the 6 weeks prior to the expected birth of their child; enable parents to request an extension to their period of UPL regardless of the amount of leave the other parent has taken; insert an entitlement to superannuation in the National Employment Standards; clarify the operation of workplace determinations and enterprise agreements; expand the circumstances in which employees can authorise employers to make valid deduction from payments; and make minor technical amendments; and

  Coal Mining Industry (Long Service Leave) Administration Act 1992

  and

  Coal Mining Industry (Long Service Leave) Payroll Levy Collection Act 1992

  in relation to the accrual, reporting and payment of long service leave entitlements for casual employees working in the black coal mining industry. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Sep 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fair Work Act 2009

  in relation to: casual employment; small business redundancy exemptions in insolvency contexts; enabling multiple franchisees to access the single-enterprise stream; transitioning from multi-enterprise agreements; model terms; regulated labour hire arrangement orders; workplace delegates’ rights; discrimination against employees subjected to family and domestic violence; sham contracting; exemptions to waive entry requirements for suspected underpayment and increasing maximum penalties for underpayments; compliance notices; introduction of a criminal offence for wage theft; the definition of employment; minimum standards and increased dispute resolution for employee-like workers performing digital platform work and regulated road transport industry contractors; and removal of a sunsetted clause relating to applications to vary modern awards;

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to remove provisions relating to the withdrawal of parts of amalgamated organisations;

  Independent Contractors Act 2006

  to provide that the Act applies to independent contractors performing work remunerated at an amount exceeding the new contractor high income threshold;

  Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency Act 2013

  to expand the functions of the Asbestos and Silica Safety and Eradication Agency in relation to silica safety and silica-related diseases;

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988

  to implement presumptive liability provisions for first responders who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder; and

  Work Health and Safety Act 2011

  to: introduce an offence of industrial manslaughter; and amend the offences and penalties framework. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes No. 2) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Sep 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  This bill is the result of the Senate dividing the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Bill 2023 (original bill) into two bills. On 7 December 2023 the House of Representatives accepted the Senate’s action in dividing the bill. This page shows the procedural history of the original bill up to the time it was divided, and the title and description of the bill as divided by the Senate (see sheet PU108 of amendments to the original bill). For copies of the explanatory memoranda and amendments circulated to the original bill, see the homepage of the original bill. This bill amends the:

  Fair Work Act 2009

  in relation to: casual employment; enabling multiple franchisees to access the single-enterprise stream; transitioning from multi-enterprise agreements; model terms; intractable bargaining workplace determinations; workplace delegates’ rights; sham contracting; exemptions to waive entry requirements for suspected underpayment and increasing maximum penalties for underpayments; compliance notices; the definition of employment; minimum standards and increased dispute resolution for employee-like workers performing digital platform work and regulated road transport industry contractors; and removal of a sunsetted clause relating to applications to vary modern awards;

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to remove provisions relating to the withdrawal of parts of amalgamated organisations; and

  Independent Contractors Act 2006

  to provide that the Act applies to independent contractors performing work remunerated at an amount exceeding the new contractor high income threshold; and

  Coal Mining Industry (Long Service Leave) Administration Act 1992

  in relation to the appointment of certain directors to the Coal Mining Industry (Long Service Leave Funding) Corporation. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Feb 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to provide that contravening a Fair Work Commission order which deals with the employee right to disconnect would not expose a person to a criminal penalty. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Jul 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to replace the current entitlement in the National Employment Standards to five days of unpaid family and domestic violence leave in a 12-month period with an entitlement to ten days of paid leave for full-time, part-time and casual employees; extend the definition of family and domestic violence to include conduct of a current or former intimate partner of an employee, or a member of an employee's household; and extend the entitlement to paid family and domestic violence leave to non-national system employees once the International Labour Organization

  Convention on Violence and Harassment

  (No. 190) comes into force for Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Withdrawal from Amalgamation) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jun 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to enable the Manufacturing Division to de-merge from the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union, if supported by a ballot of relevant members. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Administration) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Aug 2024 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to place the Construction and General Division (and its branches) of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union into administration. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Export Control Amendment (Streamlining Administrative Processes) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Nov 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Export Control Act 2020

  to: provide for the use and disclosure of certain information, including protected information; enable the secretary to impose or vary conditions at the same time as approving a variation to an approved arrangement, accredited property, registered establishment or export licence; require fit and proper person assessments to take into consideration certain information received under the

  Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991

  ; and make minor technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Export Control Amendment (Ending Live Sheep Exports by Sea) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 May 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Export Control Act 2020

  to: prohibit the export from Australia of live sheep by sea on and after 1 May 2028; and enable the minister to make arrangements for payments or grants of financial assistance for certain activities relating to the phasing out of export of live sheep by sea. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Excise Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Mar 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2024, the bill amends the

  Excise Tariff Act 1921

  to increase rates of duty for tobacco goods from 1 September 2023. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum