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• Student Loans (Overseas Debtors Repayment Levy) Amendment Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 May 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Trade Support Loans Amendment Bill 2023, the bill amends the

  Student Loans (Overseas Debtors Repayment Levy) Act 2015

  to update references to the

  Trade Support Loans Act 2014

  with references to the

  Australian Apprenticeship Support Loans Act 2014

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Trade Support Loans Amendment Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 May 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Student Loans (Overseas Debtors Repayment Levy) Amendment Bill 2023, the bill amends the

  Trade Support Loans Act 2014

  to: cause the Trade Support Loans Priority List to lapse; enable the minister to determine a new Australian Apprenticeships Priority List; provide that a qualifying apprenticeship is, among other things, an apprenticeship through which a person is undertaking a qualification that leads to an occupation or qualification specified on the Australian Apprenticeships Priority List; amend the title of the Act to the

  Australian Apprenticeship Support Loans Act 2014

  ; and enable the secretary to extend the day by which an application for a particular payment instalment period may be made. Also makes consequential amendments to 5 Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Protecting Worker Entitlements) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: provide that a breach of the

  Migration Act 1958

  does not affect the validity of a contract of employment or contract for services for the purposes of the Act; enable employees to take up to 100 days of flexible unpaid parental leave (UPL); enable employees to commence UPL at any time in the 24 months following the birth or placement of their child; enable employee couples to take UPL at the same time; allow pregnant employees to access flexible UPL in the 6 weeks prior to the expected birth of their child; enable parents to request an extension to their period of UPL regardless of the amount of leave the other parent has taken; insert an entitlement to superannuation in the National Employment Standards; clarify the operation of workplace determinations and enterprise agreements; expand the circumstances in which employees can authorise employers to make valid deduction from payments; and make minor technical amendments; and

  Coal Mining Industry (Long Service Leave) Administration Act 1992

  and

  Coal Mining Industry (Long Service Leave) Payroll Levy Collection Act 1992

  in relation to the accrual, reporting and payment of long service leave entitlements for casual employees working in the black coal mining industry. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Jobs and Skills Australia Amendment Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Jobs and Skills Australia Act 2022

  to: provide for the permanent governance arrangements and functions of Jobs and skills Australia; provide for the minister to establish a Ministerial Advisory Board to advise in relation to the performance of the functions of Jobs and Skills Australia; and provide for a review of the operation of the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Work Health and Safety Amendment Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Work Health and Safety Act 2011

  to: include negligence as a fault element in relation to a category one offence; clarify that a work group is negotiated with workers who are proposed to form the work group; amend the obligation to train health and safety representatives to provide that representatives are entitled to choose a course of training; amend the process for the issuing and services of notices under the Act; enable an inspector, within 30 days of entering a workplace, to issue certain written notices relating to the reason for entry; specify that Comcare is able to share information with certain other persons for the purpose of performing functions under relevant laws; extend from 12 to 18 months the deadline for a person to make a request to the regulator to bring a prosecution for a category one or two offence; prohibit a person from entering into a contract of insurance to provide coverage over liability for monetary penalties imposed under the Act, and create a related offence; and

  Safe Work Australia Act 2008

  to specify that Safe Work Australia may be provided with information necessary to its data and evidence functions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Oct 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fair Work Act 2009

  and

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to abolish the Registered Organisations Commission and provide for transitional arrangements;

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to apply certain provisions of the

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

  ;

  Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Act 2016

  to: abolish the Australian Building and Construction Commission and provide for transitional arrangements; repeal the

  Code for the Tendering and Performance of Building Work 2016

  ; and rename the Act to the

  Federal Safety Commissioner Act 2022

  ;

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: amend the objects of the Act to include the promotion of job security and gender equity; guide the Fair Work Commission (FWC) in its consideration of equal remuneration and work value cases; establish a Pay Equity Expert Panel and a Care Community Sector Expert Panel to determine equal remuneration cases and certain award cases; prohibit pay secrecy; prohibit sexual harassment in connection with work; add the protected attributes of breastfeeding, gender identity and intersex status to the existing anti-discrimination provisions; limit the use of fixed term contracts; expand the circumstances in which an employee may request flexible work arrangements and empower the FWC to resolve disputes regarding flexible work arrangements; amend the requirements for approval of an enterprise agreement; simplify the process for initiating bargaining in certain circumstances; amend the Better Off Overall Test; enable the FWC to vary enterprise agreements to correct errors, defects or irregularities; provide for a new intractable bargaining declaration scheme; amend certain processes relating to industrial action and Protected Action Ballots; remove limitations on access to the low-paid bargaining stream and the single-interest employer authorisation stream; amend provisions relating to making multi-enterprise agreements (to be known as cooperative workplace agreements); amend small claims procedures to enable unpaid entitlement recovery; and prohibit national system employers from advertising employment at a rate of pay that would contravene the Act;

  Fair Work Act 2009

  and

  Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009

  to provide that the FWC can only terminate an agreement that has nominally expired on the unilateral application of a party in limited circumstances;

  Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009

  to provide for the sunsetting of all remaining transitional instruments; and

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988

  to update the worker's compensation presumptive liability provisions for firefighters. Also makes consequential amendments to four Acts and repeals the

  Building and Construction Industry (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2016

  and

  Building and Construction Industry Improvement (Consequential and Transitional) Act 2005

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Jul 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to replace the current entitlement in the National Employment Standards to five days of unpaid family and domestic violence leave in a 12-month period with an entitlement to ten days of paid leave for full-time, part-time and casual employees; extend the definition of family and domestic violence to include conduct of a current or former intimate partner of an employee, or a member of an employee's household; and extend the entitlement to paid family and domestic violence leave to non-national system employees once the International Labour Organization

  Convention on Violence and Harassment

  (No. 190) comes into force for Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Jobs and Skills Australia (National Skills Commissioner Repeal) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jul 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Jobs and Skills Australia Bill 2022, the bill repeals the

  National Skills Commissioner Act 2020

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Jobs and Skills Australia Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jul 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Jobs and Skills Australia (National Skills Commissioner Repeal) Bill 2022, the bill establishes Jobs and Skills Australia, as a statutory body within the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, to provide advice and collect, analyse, share and publish data and other information on Australia's current and emerging labour market and its current, emerging and future skills and training needs and priorities (including in relation to apprenticeships), and the adequacy of the Australian system for providing vocational education and training (including training outcomes). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Self-Employment Programs and Other Measures) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jul 2022 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Family Law Regulations 1984

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

  to clarify that the Acts operate in the same way in relation to payments under the Self-Employment Assistance program as payments under the New Enterprise Incentive Scheme; and

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to make minor technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum