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• 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 (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

• Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment and Heritage 

  Summary

  Provides for the establishment and operation of a scheme to apply national water efficiency labelling and minimum performance standards to certain water-use products. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Agreement Validation) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Nov 2004 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  to ensure the validity of agreements which were certified, approved or varied under the Act prior to the High Court’s decision on 2 September 2004 in

  Electrolux Home Products Pty Ltd v The Australian Workers’ Union and Others

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Extended Prohibition of Compulsory Union Fees) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Aug 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jun 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Environment and Heritage 

  Summary

  Provides for the establishment and operation of a scheme to apply national water efficiency labelling and minimum performance standards to certain water-use products. Also contains a regulation-making power. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Fair Dismissal) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Jun 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  to: exempt small businesses from the unfair dismissal provisions (except in relation to apprentices and trainees); and require the Australian Industrial Relations Commission to order that an unfair dismissal application is invalid if it relates to a small business employer. Also contains an application provision. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Protecting Small Business Employment) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 May 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 recent decision of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission to impose redundancy pay obligations on small businesses. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Good Faith Bargaining) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Mar 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  Craig EMERSON MP 

  Bill

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Choice in Award Coverage) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Nov 2003 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  to: provide all businesses with information about their rights and the processes involved with logs of claims; limit the ability of unions to involve small businesses which employ no union members into the federal jurisdiction; and require the Australian Industrial Relations Commission to inquire into views of unrepresented small business employers potentially affected by a logs of claims. Also contains application provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum