Second Reading Speeches

Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025

Type
Government
Portfolio
Employment and Workplace Relations
Originating house
House of Representatives
Status
Before Reps
Parliament no
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Summary

Amends the

Fair Work Act 2009
to establish a principle requiring the Fair Work Commission to ensure that penalty and overtime rates are not reduced and that modern awards do not include terms that substitute employees’ entitlements to receive penalty or overtime rates where those terms would have the effect of reducing that additional remuneration employees would otherwise receive.

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