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• Workplace Relations Amendment (Improved Remedies for Unprotected Action) Bill 2004

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  Date

  26 Jun 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  to ensure that applications for orders to prevent unprotected industrial action are dealt with quickly and that, in dealing with applications, the Australian Industrial Relations Commission takes into account the undesirability of unprotected action. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Prohibition of Compulsory Union Fees) Bill 2003

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  Date

  04 Dec 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the certified agreement and freedom of association provisions of the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  to: nullify clauses in certified agreements that purport to require payment of bargaining services fees; and prohibit conduct designed to compel persons to pay such fees. Also contains application provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Protection for Emergency Management Volunteers) Bill 2003

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  Date

  06 Mar 2003 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  to make it unlawful to dismiss emergency management volunteers who are temporarily absent from the workplace on voluntary emergency management duty. Also contains an application provision. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Registration and Accountability of Organisations) Bill 2002

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  Date

  21 Mar 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  in relation to the registration, amalgamation and internal administration and regulation of registered organisations, including election processes, duties of officers and employees of those organisations, financial accountability and disclosure, democratic control and penalties for breaches. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Tallies) Bill 2001

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  Date

  29 Jun 2000 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Termination of Employment) Bill 2001

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  Date

  27 Jun 2000 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Transition to Forward with Fairness) Bill 2008

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  Date

  13 Feb 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  to: abolish Australian Workplace Agreements; provide transitional arrangements through Individual Transitional Employment Agreements (ITEAs); introduce a no-disadvantage test for ITEAs and collective agreements and ensure no agreement is approved until it passes the test; remove the requirement for a Workplace Relations Fact Sheet; provide that all parties agree to terminate collective workplace agreements; and enable award modernisation processes to be undertaken by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission. Also makes consequential amendments to 16 Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Transmission of Business) Bill 2004

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  Date

  21 Mar 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  to empower the Australian Industrial Relations Commission to make an order that a certified agreement does not bind a new employer as a result of a transfer of a business, or only binds the new employer to a specified extent. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Bill 2005

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  Date

  02 Nov 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  in relation to: creation of a national workplace relations system, including the establishment of the Australian Fair Pay Commission (AFPC) which will set and adjust minimum and award classification wages, minimum conditions of employment; public holidays; outworkers; direct bargaining between employers and employees; the role of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, particularly in relation to regulation of industrial action; a simplified system of awards; redundancy pay by small business employers; transmission of business rules; protection of key award conditions in bargaining processes; dispute settlement procedures; extension of the compliance regime; transitional arrangements; provides for the renumbering of the Act; and Financial Management and Accountability Regulations 1997 in relation to the establishment of the AFPC. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Independent Contractors) Bill 2006

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  Date

  22 Jun 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Independent Contractors Bill 2006 to protect the status of independent contractors, the bill amends the:

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  to: provide civil penalties for sham contracting arrangements; protect redundancy entitlements; provide for stand downs; make changes to the Australian Fair Pay and Conditions Standard; and

  Building and Construction Industry Improvement Act 2005

  and

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  to: repeal redundant provisions in relation to unfair contracts as a consequence of the proposed national services contract review scheme contained in the Independent Contractors Bill 2006; allow proceedings to be initiated in relation to sham contracting arrangements; and makes technical amendments to the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  and

  Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum