Skills Australia Amendment (Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency) Bill 2012
Information about the Inquiry
On 22 March 2012 the Senate referred the Skills Australia Amendment (Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency) Bill 2012 for inquiry and report.
Skills Australia Amendment (Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency) Bill 2012 (the Bill) seeks to establish the Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency, an industry-led national workforce and productivity agency, to replace Skills Australia.
The new agency would become operational from 1 July 2012.
The Bill would amend the Skills Australia Act 2008 to:
- replace the existing Skills Australia body with the Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency;
- allow the provision of advice on workforce development funding and Commonwealth industry skills;
- allow for a stronger research, analysis and advisory role for the workforce and productivity agency;
- expand the size of the body from seven to ten members, including and independent chair; and
- expand the membership criteria to reflect the transition to a union and industry-led body.
Submissions should be received by 12 April 2012. The reporting date is 09 May 2012.
The Committee is seeking written submissions from interested individuals and organisations preferably in electronic form submitted online or sent by email to eewr.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:
Committee Secretary
Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Committees
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 3521 or facsimile +61 2 6277 5706 or by email to eewr.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.
For further information, contact: Committee Secretary
Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Committees
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia