Recommendations
Recommendation 1 page
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The committee recommends to the Senate that the Workplace
Relations Amendment (Fair Dismissal Reform) Bill 2004 be rejected.
Recommendation 2 page
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The committee recommends that the Government work with small
business, unions and peak industry bodies to make unfair dismissal laws more
effective by reducing the procedural complexity and cost to small business of
the current unfair dismissal process.
Recommendation 3 page
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The committee recommends that the Government make no further
changes to unfair dismissal laws until an independent review has been conducted
by experts selected from employee and union groups, employer groups and
academics. The committee recommends that:
- the review examine the Government's policy on
unfair dismissal and evidence used to support its legislation, relevant Senate committee
reports which have addressed the issue of unfair dismissal, state government
views and any other relevant sources; and
- findings of the review be presented to the Council
of Australian Governments (COAG) with a request that it develop a set of common
principles to guide future reform of unfair dismissal laws at the state and
federal level.
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