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  • Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Bill 2023

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    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 (Protecting Worker Entitlements) Bill 2023

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    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 (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022

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    Date
    27 Oct 2022 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Employment and Workplace Relations 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Fair Work Act 2009
    and
    Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
    to abolish the Registered Organisations Commission and provide for transitional arrangements;
    Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
    to apply certain provisions of the
    Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014
    ;
    Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Act 2016
    to: abolish the Australian Building and Construction Commission and provide for transitional arrangements; repeal the
    Code for the Tendering and Performance of Building Work 2016
    ; and rename the Act to the
    Federal Safety Commissioner Act 2022
    ;
    Fair Work Act 2009
    to: amend the objects of the Act to include the promotion of job security and gender equity; guide the Fair Work Commission (FWC) in its consideration of equal remuneration and work value cases; establish a Pay Equity Expert Panel and a Care Community Sector Expert Panel to determine equal remuneration cases and certain award cases; prohibit pay secrecy; prohibit sexual harassment in connection with work; add the protected attributes of breastfeeding, gender identity and intersex status to the existing anti-discrimination provisions; limit the use of fixed term contracts; expand the circumstances in which an employee may request flexible work arrangements and empower the FWC to resolve disputes regarding flexible work arrangements; amend the requirements for approval of an enterprise agreement; simplify the process for initiating bargaining in certain circumstances; amend the Better Off Overall Test; enable the FWC to vary enterprise agreements to correct errors, defects or irregularities; provide for a new intractable bargaining declaration scheme; amend certain processes relating to industrial action and Protected Action Ballots; remove limitations on access to the low-paid bargaining stream and the single-interest employer authorisation stream; amend provisions relating to making multi-enterprise agreements (to be known as cooperative workplace agreements); amend small claims procedures to enable unpaid entitlement recovery; and prohibit national system employers from advertising employment at a rate of pay that would contravene the Act;
    Fair Work Act 2009
    and
    Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009
    to provide that the FWC can only terminate an agreement that has nominally expired on the unilateral application of a party in limited circumstances;
    Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009
    to provide for the sunsetting of all remaining transitional instruments; and
    Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988
    to update the worker's compensation presumptive liability provisions for firefighters. Also makes consequential amendments to four Acts and repeals the
    Building and Construction Industry (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2016
    and
    Building and Construction Industry Improvement (Consequential and Transitional) Act 2005
    . 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

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

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    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

  • Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Financial Viability) Bill 2011

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    Date
    26 May 2011 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Employment Participation and Childcare 
    Summary
    Amends the
    A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
    to: provide for the assessment and monitoring of the financial viability of large long day care centre operators of approved child care services; and authorise the secretary to engage an audit expert to carry out an independent audit of a centre operator if there are concerns about its ongoing financial viability. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment (Child Care and Other Measures) Bill 2011

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    Date
    23 Feb 2011 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Employment Participation and Childcare 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
    and
    Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Management System and Other Measures) Act 2007
    in relation to the recovery of fee reductions, enrolment advances and business continuity payments paid to approved child care services;
    Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care) Act 2010
    to make a technical amendment;
    A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999
    and
    A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
    in relation to the effect of a child’s absence from the care of an approved child care service on the eligibility of an individual for child care benefit for that child;
    A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
    ,
    Child Care Act 1972
    and
    Social Security Act 1991
    to clarify the definition of family assistance law;
    Age Discrimination Act 2004
    ,
    A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
    ,
    Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
    and
    Student Assistance Act 1973
    to enable disclosure of information about education and care services for the purposes of the Education and Care Services National Law; and
    A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
    in relation to: the secretary’s power to refuse a child care service’s approval for the purposes of family assistance law; the requirement to comply with child care laws; and the recalculation of child care benefit fee reductions. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Rebate) Bill 2011

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    23 Feb 2011 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Employment Participation and Childcare 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999
    and
    A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
    to provide for fortnightly child rebate payments for individuals who are eligible for child care benefit by fee reduction;
    A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
    , the proposed
    Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment (Child Care and Other Measures) Act 2011
    and
    Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Management System and Other Measures) Act 2007
    to make amendments consequential on the commencement of the proposed
    Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment (Child Care and Other Measures) Act 2011
    . 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Budget Measures) Bill 2011

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    29 Sep 2010 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Employment Participation and Childcare 
    Summary
    Amends the
    A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999
    to set the annual child care rebate limit at $7500 for four income years from 1 July 2010. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Fuel Quality Standards Amendment Bill 2003

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    26 Jun 2003 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Environment and Heritage 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000
    to: establish a national labelling regime for fuels at the point of sale; and make certain existing offences under the Act strict liability offences. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Fuel Quality Standards Bill 2000

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    07 Sep 2000 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Environment and Heritage portfolio 

    Bill

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