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TOTAL RESULTS: 473
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- Date
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09 Dec 2020
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Industrial Relations
- Summary
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Amends the
Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
to establish a process to enable constituent parts of registered organisations that have amalgamated with other organisations to withdraw from the amalgamated organisation outside the current time-limited period of five years post-amalgamation, in specified circumstances.
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- Date
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31 May 2012
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Summary
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Amends the
Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
to: require that the rules of all registered organisations deal with disclosure of remuneration, pecuniary and financial interests; increase civil penalties; strengthen the investigative powers of Fair Work Australia; and require education and training to be provided to officials of registered organisations about their governance and accounting obligations.
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- Date
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14 Nov 2013
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Employment
- Summary
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Amends the:
Fair Work Act 2009
and Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
to: establish the Registered Organisations Commission and provide it with investigation and information gathering powers to monitor and regulate registered organisations; and provide for the appointment, functions and powers of the commissioner (who will assume the investigations, enforcement advice and assistance responsibilities in relation to registered organisations currently undertaken by the General Manager of the Fair Work Commission); and Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
to: amend the requirements on officers’ disclosure of material personal interests and change grounds for disqualification and ineligibility for office; increase financial accounting and disclosure obligations for registered organisations and their officers; and increase civil penalties and introduce criminal offences for serious breaches of officers’ duties and new offences in relation to the conduct of investigations.
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- Date
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31 Aug 2016
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Employment
- Summary
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Amends the:
Fair Work Act 2009
and Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
to: establish the Registered Organisations Commission and provide it with investigation and information gathering powers to monitor and regulate registered organisations; and provide for the appointment, functions and powers of the commissioner (who will assume the investigations, enforcement advice and assistance responsibilities in relation to registered organisations currently undertaken by the General Manager of the Fair Work Commission); and Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
to: amend the requirements on officers’ disclosure of material personal interests and change grounds for disqualification and ineligibility for office; increase financial accounting and disclosure obligations for registered organisations and their officers; and increase civil penalties and introduce criminal offences for serious breaches of officers’ duties and new offences in relation to the conduct of investigations.
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- Date
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19 Jun 2014
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Employment
- Summary
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Amends the:
Fair Work Act 2009
and Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
to: establish the Registered Organisations Commission and provide it with investigation and information gathering powers to monitor and regulate registered organisations; and provide for the appointment, functions and powers of the commissioner (who will assume the investigations, enforcement advice and assistance responsibilities in relation to registered organisations currently undertaken by the General Manager of the Fair Work Commission); and Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
to: amend the requirements on officers’ disclosure of material personal interests and change grounds for disqualification and ineligibility for office; increase financial accounting and disclosure obligations for registered organisations and their officers; and increase civil penalties and introduce criminal offences for serious breaches of officers’ duties and new offences in relation to the conduct of investigations.
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- Date
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19 Mar 2015
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Employment
- Summary
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Amends the:
Fair Work Act 2009
and Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
to: establish the Registered Organisations Commission and provide it with investigation and information gathering powers to monitor and regulate registered organisations; and provide for the appointment, functions and powers of the commissioner (who will assume the investigations, enforcement advice and assistance responsibilities in relation to registered organisations currently undertaken by the General Manager of the Fair Work Commission); and Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
to: amend the requirements on officers’ disclosure of material personal interests and change grounds for disqualification and ineligibility for office; increase financial accounting and disclosure obligations for registered organisations and their officers; and increase civil penalties and introduce criminal offences for serious breaches of officers’ duties and new offences in relation to the conduct of investigations.
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- Date
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18 Apr 2016
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Employment
- Summary
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Amends the:
Fair Work Act 2009
and Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
to: establish the Registered Organisations Commission and provide it with investigation and information gathering powers to monitor and regulate registered organisations; and provide for the appointment, functions and powers of the commissioner (who will assume the investigations, enforcement advice and assistance responsibilities in relation to registered organisations currently undertaken by the General Manager of the Fair Work Commission); and Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
to: amend the requirements on officers’ disclosure of material personal interests and change grounds for disqualification and ineligibility for office; increase financial accounting and disclosure obligations for registered organisations and their officers; and increase civil penalties and introduce criminal offences for serious breaches of officers’ duties and new offences in relation to the conduct of investigations.
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- Date
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27 May 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Summary
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Amends: the
Fair Work Act 2009
to: enable states to refer matters to the Commonwealth to provide for the establishment of a uniform national workplace relations system for the private sector; enable states to choose the extent to which the Act applies to the public sector; and make consequential and minor amendments; the proposed Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009
and Fair Work Act 2009
to: transition Victorian employers and employees to the workplace relations system created by the Fair Work Act; and establish a framework for making state reference public sector modern awards; and 67 Acts to make transitional and consequential amendments. Also enables further transitional and consequential arrangements to be made by regulation.
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- Date
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19 Mar 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Summary
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The bill: repeals the
Workplace Relations Act 1996
(other than Schedules relating to registered organisations and transitionally registered associations) and renames it the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
; provides for the application of the National Employment Standards and minimum wages to all national system employees from 1 January 2010; ensures no reduction in employees’ take home pay results from the transition to a modern award; establishes rules in relation to the treatment of existing instruments; introduces transitional bargaining and agreement-making rules; abolishes the office of Workplace Ombudsman (WO); provides for the limited, continued operation of the Australian Fair Pay Commission, WO, Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) and the Australian Industrial Registry and appoints existing full-time AIRC members to Fair Work Australia (FWA); provides that existing investigations and compliance proceedings by the WO will be dealt with by the Fair Work Ombudsman and allows Fair Work Inspectors to exercise new compliance powers in relation to breaches occurring before or after 1 July 2009; gives FWA power to make representation orders in response to union demarcation disputes; establishes rules to enable state-registered organisations to participate in the new federal workplace relations system; and amends the Federal Court of Australia Act 1976
and Federal Magistrates Act 1999
to create Fair Work Divisions within those courts.
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- Date
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25 Jun 2018
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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BANDT, Adam, MP
- Summary
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Amends the
Fair Work Act 2009
to increase the national minimum wage to at least 60 per cent of the median full-time weekly wage, as determined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
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