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• Work Health and Safety Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Work Health and Safety (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Bill 2011, the bill implements the Model Work Health and Safety Bill (the model bill) within the Commonwealth jurisdiction to form part of a system of nationally harmonised occupational health and safety laws which will apply to businesses and undertakings conducted by the Commonwealth, public authorities, and transitionally, non-Commonwealth licensees. State and territory governments, together with the Commonwealth, signed the Intergovernmental Agreement for Regulatory and Operational Reform in Occupational Health and Safety which commits the jurisdictions to implement the model laws by December 2011. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Gender Equality Amendment (Closing the Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Feb 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Women 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012

  to: require the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) to publish gender pay gap information of relevant employers for each reporting period; rename the current 'minimum standards' as 'gender equality standards'; require relevant employers to provide executive summary and industry benchmark reports to all members of their governing body; include 'sexual harassment', 'harassment on the ground of sex' or 'discrimination' as gender equality indicators; change the title of the 'Director' of the WGEA to 'Chief Executive Officer'; and make a technical amendment to the definition of 'reporting period'. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Gender Equality Amendment (Setting Gender Equality Targets) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Nov 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Women 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012

  to require certain employers with 500 or more employees to select and meet, or improve against, certain gender equality targets over a 3 year period. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations (Guaranteeing Paid Maternity Leave) Amendment Bill 2007 [2008]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Sep 2007 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  STOTT DESPOJA, Natasha 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  to provide for a 14-week government funded, paid maternity leave scheme available to all women in the Australian workforce. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations (Registered Organisations) (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2001

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 May 2001 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations (Registered Organisations) Bill 2001

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Apr 2001 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business portfolio 

  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

• 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 (Australian Defence Force Service and Training) Bill 1999

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Oct 1999 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

   

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum