Fair Work Amendment (Transfer of Business) Bill 2012

Type: Government
Portfolio: Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Originating house: House of Representatives
Status: Act
Parliament no: 43
Summary: Amends the:
Fair Work Act 2009
  to: provide for the transfer of employees’ terms and conditions of employment from an old public sector employer to a national system employer where there is a connection between the two; and enable Fair Work Australia to make orders that modify the general effect of the transfer of business rules in these circumstances; and
Fair Work Act 2009
,
Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
  and
Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009
  to make consequential amendments.

Progress

House of Representatives
11 Oct 2012	Introduced and read a first time
11 Oct 2012	Second reading moved
01 Nov 2012	Second reading debate
01 Nov 2012	Second reading agreed to
01 Nov 2012	Consideration in detail debate
01 Nov 2012	Third reading agreed to

Senate
01 Nov 2012	Introduced and read a first time
01 Nov 2012	Second reading moved
26 Nov 2012	Second reading debate
26 Nov 2012	Second reading agreed to
26 Nov 2012	Committee of the Whole debate Amendment details: 21 Government agreed to
26 Nov 2012	Third reading agreed to

House of Representatives
27 Nov 2012	Consideration of Senate message Details: House agreed to Senate amendments

27 Nov 2012	Text of bill as passed both Houses
04 Dec 2012	Assent Act no.: 175 Year: 2012

Documents and transcripts

Text of bill

First reading
As passed by both houses

Explanatory memoranda

Explanatory memorandum
Supplementary explanatory memorandum

Transcript of speeches

Proposed amendments

Senate
Government [sheet BW270]
Opposition [sheet 7308] ABETZ, Sen Eric

Schedules of amendments

Schedule of the amendments made by the Senate

Committee Information

No documents at present

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Text of bill

First reading: Text of the bill as introduced into the Parliament
Third reading: Prepared if the bill is amended by the house in which it was introduced. This version of the bill is then considered by the second house.
As passed by both houses: Final text of bill agreed to by both the House of Representatives and the Senate which is presented to the Governor-General for assent.

Explanatory memoranda

Explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and provides an explanation of the content of the introduced version (first reading) of the bill.
Supplementary explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains amendments proposed by the government to the bill.
Revised explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains the amended version (third reading) of the bill. It supersedes the explanatory memorandum.

Proposed amendments

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Schedules of amendments

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