On 16 May 2013 the Senate referred the Australian Jobs Bill 2013 to the Senate Economics Committees for inquiry and report.
This inquiry follows on from this committee's recent inquiry into the exposure draft of the Australian Jobs Bill 2013.

A summary of changes between the exposure draft and final version of the Australian Jobs Bill 2013 provided by the Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education can be found here.

Submissions should be received by 28 May 2013. The report was initially due by 17 June 2013, however the committee has brought forward the reporting date for this inquiry to 3 June 2013.

The Committee is seeking written submissions from interested individuals and organisations preferably in electronic form submitted online or sent by email to economics.sen@aph.gov.au as an attached Adobe PDF or MS Word format document. The email must include full postal address and contact details.

Alternatively, written submissions may be sent to:

Senate Standing Committees on Economics
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia

Notes to help you prepare your submission are available from the website at https://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/wit_sub/index.htm. Alternatively, the Committee Secretariat will be able to help you with your inquiries and can be contacted on telephone +61 2 6277 3540 or facsimile +61 2 6277 5719 or by email at economics.sen@aph.gov.au.

Inquiries from hearing and speech impaired people should be directed to Parliament House TTY number 02 6277 7799. Adobe also provides tools at  http://access.adobe.com/ for the blind and visually impaired to access PDF documents. If you require any special arrangements to enable you to participate in the Committee's inquiry, please contact the Committee Secretariat.

Once the Committee accepts your submission, it becomes a confidential Committee document and is protected by Parliamentary Privilege. You must not release your submission without the Committee's permission. If you do, it will not be protected by Parliamentary Privilege. At some stage during the inquiry, the Committee normally makes submissions public and places them on its website. Please indicate if you want your submission to be kept confidential.