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TOTAL RESULTS: 159
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19 Jun 2001
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Senate
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31 May 2012
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House of Representatives
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
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Amends the
Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
to: require that the rules of all registered organisations deal with disclosure of remuneration, pecuniary and financial interests; increase civil penalties; strengthen the investigative powers of Fair Work Australia; and require education and training to be provided to officials of registered organisations about their governance and accounting obligations.
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27 May 2009
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House of Representatives
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
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Amends: the
Fair Work Act 2009
to: enable states to refer matters to the Commonwealth to provide for the establishment of a uniform national workplace relations system for the private sector; enable states to choose the extent to which the Act applies to the public sector; and make consequential and minor amendments; the proposed Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009
and Fair Work Act 2009
to: transition Victorian employers and employees to the workplace relations system created by the Fair Work Act; and establish a framework for making state reference public sector modern awards; and 67 Acts to make transitional and consequential amendments. Also enables further transitional and consequential arrangements to be made by regulation.
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- Date
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19 Mar 2009
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Summary
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The bill: repeals the
Workplace Relations Act 1996
(other than Schedules relating to registered organisations and transitionally registered associations) and renames it the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
; provides for the application of the National Employment Standards and minimum wages to all national system employees from 1 January 2010; ensures no reduction in employees’ take home pay results from the transition to a modern award; establishes rules in relation to the treatment of existing instruments; introduces transitional bargaining and agreement-making rules; abolishes the office of Workplace Ombudsman (WO); provides for the limited, continued operation of the Australian Fair Pay Commission, WO, Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) and the Australian Industrial Registry and appoints existing full-time AIRC members to Fair Work Australia (FWA); provides that existing investigations and compliance proceedings by the WO will be dealt with by the Fair Work Ombudsman and allows Fair Work Inspectors to exercise new compliance powers in relation to breaches occurring before or after 1 July 2009; gives FWA power to make representation orders in response to union demarcation disputes; establishes rules to enable state-registered organisations to participate in the new federal workplace relations system; and amends the Federal Court of Australia Act 1976
and Federal Magistrates Act 1999
to create Fair Work Divisions within those courts.
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- Date
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13 May 2009
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah
- Summary
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Amends the
Fair Work Act 2009
to: provide 26 weeks government-funded paid parental leave for all eligible Australian parents at the level of the federal minimum wage, or average wage, with a right to return to work; and make consequential amendments.
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24 Nov 2011
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Senate
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
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Amends the
Fair Work Act 2009
in relation to the textile, clothing and footwear industry to: extend the operation of most of the provisions of the Act to contract outworkers; enable outworkers to recover unpaid amounts up the supply chain; enable an outwork code of practice to be issued; and extend specific right of entry rules to sweatshop premises.
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25 Nov 2008
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
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Implements a workplace relations system which provides for: the establishment of National Employment Standards, modern awards and national minimum wage orders; the establishment of the statutory offices of Fair Work Australia to administer the system and the Fair Work Ombudsman to promote compliance; fair work instruments; and the creation of Fair Work Divisions in the Federal Court and Federal Magistrate’s Court to hear workplace relations matters.
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27 May 2009
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Treasury
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Part of a package of three bills to effect three private health insurance tiers, the bill amends the
Medicare Levy Act 1986
to increase the rate of Medicare levy surcharge for certain taxpayers who do not have complying health insurance and whose income for surcharge purposes is above the relevant Medicare levy surcharge threshold.
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19 Nov 2009
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Treasury
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Part of a package of three bills to effect three private health insurance tiers, the bill amends the
Medicare Levy Act 1986
to increase the rate of Medicare levy surcharge for certain taxpayers who do not have complying health insurance and whose income for surcharge purposes is above the relevant Medicare levy surcharge threshold.
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07 Jul 2011
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Treasury
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Part of a package of three bills to effect three private health insurance tiers, the bill amends the
Medicare Levy Act 1986
to increase the rate of Medicare levy surcharge for certain taxpayers who do not have complying health insurance and whose income for surcharge purposes is above the relevant Medicare levy surcharge threshold.
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