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• Workplace Relations Amendment (Right of Entry) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Dec 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  to: establish a framework for the right of entry system which will clearly set out parties’ rights and responsibilities; and enable the Commonwealth to override the operation of State right of entry laws or industrial instruments within constitutional limits. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Small Business Employment Protection) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Dec 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  to restore the exemption for small business from redundancy payments by overturning the 2004 decision of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission to impose redundancy pay obligations on small businesses. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Extended Prohibition of Compulsory Union Fees) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the freedom of association provisions of the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  to extend the prohibition on bargaining services fee clauses to State employment agreements to which a constitutional corporation is a party. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Better Bargaining) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Mar 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  in relation to: industrial action before the expiration of an agreement; cooling-off periods; third party suspensions; protected and unprotected industrial action; and pattern bargaining. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  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

  Track (What's this?)

  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

• Wheat Marketing Amendment Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2006 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Wheat Marketing Act 1989

  to transfer, until 30 June 2007, the veto power for bulk wheat export applications from AWB (International) Ltd to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations (Restoring Family Work Balance) Amendment Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Mar 2007 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  FIELDING, Sen Steve 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  to ensure that workers in Australia are guaranteed public holiday leave in lieu, meal breaks, penalty rates, overtime and protection of existing redundancy entitlements. 

  Bill

• Workplace Relations Amendment (A Stronger Safety Net) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 May 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  ,

  Coal Mining Industry (Long Service Leave Funding) Act 1992

  and Financial Management and Accountability Regulations 1997 to: create the Office of the Workplace Ombudsman and the Workplace Authority as statutory agencies; introduce a fairness test to apply to workplace agreements lodged on or after 7 May 2007 to guarantee employees fair compensation in lieu of modification or exclusion of protected award conditions such as penalty rates and overtime and shift loadings; establish a compliance framework to ensure the effective operation of the fairness test; and vary provisions relating to: prohibited content in workplace agreements; and membership requirements for registered organisations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Wheat Marketing Amendment Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Wheat Marketing Act 1989

  and Financial Management and Accountability Regulations 1997 in relation to: information-gathering and investigative powers of the Wheat Export Authority (WEA); extension of the minister’s veto power over non-AWB (International) Ltd bulk exports; ministerial power to change the holder of the single desk export privilege; deregulation of exports in bags and containers; and structural and governance reforms of the WEA including renaming it as the Export Wheat Commission. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum