Fair Work Amendment (Repeal of 4 Yearly Reviews and Other Measures) Bill 2017

Summary

Amends the: Fair Work Act 2009 to respond to recommendations of the Productivity Commission’s final report into the Workplace Relations Framework by: removing the requirement for the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to conduct 4 yearly reviews of modern awards from the beginning of 1 January 2018; and enabling the FWC to overlook minor procedural or technical errors when approving an enterprise agreement, if it is satisfied that those errors were not likely to have disadvantaged employees; and Fair Work Act 2009 and Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009 to respond to recommendations of the Report of Inquiry into Complaints about the Honourable Vice President Michael Lawler of the Fair Work Commission and Related Matters by applying the complaint-handling powers of the Minister for Employment and the President of the FWC to FWC members who formerly held office in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, and applying the Judicial Misbehaviour and Incapacity (Parliamentary Commissions) Act 2012 in relation to FWC members.

Progress

House of Representatives
Introduced and read a first time	01 Mar 2017
Second reading moved	01 Mar 2017
Second reading debate	20 Jun 2017
Second reading agreed to	20 Jun 2017
Consideration in detail debate Amendment details: 4 Government agreed to	20 Jun 2017
Third reading agreed to	20 Jun 2017

Senate
Introduced and read a first time	22 Jun 2017
Second reading moved	22 Jun 2017
Second reading debate	04 Sep 2017
Second reading debate	05 Sep 2017
Second reading debate	04 Dec 2017
Second reading agreed to	04 Dec 2017
Committee of the Whole debate Amendment details: 2 Opposition agreed to	04 Dec 2017
Third reading debated	04 Dec 2017
Third reading agreed to	04 Dec 2017

House of Representatives
Message from Senate reported	04 Dec 2017
Consideration of Senate message Details: House disagreed to Senate amendments	05 Dec 2018

Senate
Consideration of House of Reps message Details: Senate did not insist on its amendments	05 Dec 2018


Finally passed both Houses	05 Dec 2018
Assent Act no: 170 Year: 2018	11 Dec 2018

Documents and transcripts

Text of bill

First reading

Third reading

As passed by both Houses

Explanatory memoranda

Explanatory memorandum

Revised explanatory memorandum

Supplementary explanatory memorandum

Supplementary explanatory memorandum

Transcript of speeches

Proposed amendments

House of representatives

Government [sheet MB123]

Government [sheet MB113]

Non-Government
O'CONNOR, Brendan, MP

Non-Government
O'CONNOR, Brendan, MP

Non-Government
BANDT, Adam, MP

Senate

Australian Greens [sheet 8088]
RHIANNON, Sen Lee

Opposition [sheet 8173]
CAMERON, Sen Doug

Schedules of amendments

Schedule of the amendments made by the Senate

Schedule of the amendments made by the Senate to which the House of Representatives has disagreed

Bills digest

Bills Digest

Notes

Considered by scrutiny committee (22/03/2017): Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills; Scrutiny Digest 3 of 2017
Referred to Committee (23/03/2017): Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee; Committee report (22/05/2017)
An electronic version of this Act is available on the Federal Register of Legislation (www.legislation.gov.au)

Helpful information

Text of bill

First reading: Text of the bill as introduced into the Parliament
Third reading: Prepared if the bill is amended by the house in which it was introduced. This version of the bill is then considered by the second house.
As passed by both houses: Final text of bill agreed to by both the House of Representatives and the Senate which is presented to the Governor-General for assent.

Explanatory memoranda

Explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and provides an explanation of the content of the introduced version (first reading) of the bill.
Supplementary explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains amendments proposed by the government to the bill.
Revised explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains the amended version (third reading) of the bill. It supersedes the explanatory memorandum.

Proposed amendments

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Schedules of amendments

Schedules of amendments list amendments agreed to by the second house are communicated to the first house for consideration. Subsequent action by either house may also be included in a schedule.