Second Reading Speeches

Fair Work Amendment (Terminating Enterprise Agreements) Bill 2017

Type
Private
Sponsor(s)
WILKIE, Andrew, MP
Originating house
House of Representatives
Status
Not Proceeding
Parliament no
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Summary

Amends the

Fair Work Act 2009
to: provide that the Fair Work Commission must not consider it appropriate to terminate an enterprise agreement if the terms and conditions of employment of any employee covered by the agreement would, immediately after the termination, be less favourable than the employee’s terms and conditions of employment immediately before the termination; and invalidate any decision of the commission to terminate an agreement since 22 April 2015, if the decision would not have met the new requirements.

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