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• Fair Work Amendment Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: provide that any period of unpaid special maternity leave taken by an eligible employee does not reduce that employee’s entitlement to unpaid parental leave; increase the maximum period of concurrent unpaid parental leave from three to eight weeks; allow leave to be taken in separate periods within the first 12 months of the birth or adoption of a child; expand access to the right to request flexible working arrangements; require employers to consult with employees about changes to regular rosters or ordinary work hours; enable pregnant employees to transfer to a safe job regardless of their period of service; require the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to take into account the need to provide additional remuneration for certain employees; enable an employee who is bullied at work to apply to the FWC for an order to stop the bullying; allow the FWC to arbitrate general protection dismissal disputes and unlawful termination disputes when parties consent; align the time for making an unlawful termination application with the time limit of 21 days that applies for making general protection dismissal and unfair dismissal applications; clarify the FWC’s power to conciliate, mediate, express opinions and make recommendations at a conference; allow FWC members to be concurrently appointed to positions under Commonwealth or territory laws; establish a framework under which permit holders may enter premises for investigation and discussion purposes; and expressly confer on the FWC the function of promoting cooperative and productive workplace relations and preventing disputes;

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Act 2012

  in relation to disclosure obligations of registered organisations; and

  Fair Work Act 2009

  and

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Act 2012

  to make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Deregulation 

  Summary

  The bill: amends the:

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977

  to provide that decisions made under the proposed amendment to the

  Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997

  are not subject to administrative review;

  Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997

  to authorise the Commonwealth to form or participate in forming companies and to acquire shares in, or become a member of a company, if the proposed company and its objects or proposed activities are specified in the Financial Management and Accountability Regulations 1997;

  Social Security Act 1991

  to provide for recoverable payments and recoverable death payments for payments made under the Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payments scheme;

  Judges’ Pensions Act 1968

  and

  Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973

  to establish recoverable payments and recoverable death payments; and Financial Management and Accountability Regulations 1997 to specify a list of existing Commonwealth-owned companies; and enables deferred tax asset relief to be provided to the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation in relation to the transfer of assets from the Military Superannuation and Benefits Fund to the ARIA Investments Trust. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Foreign Affairs Portfolio Miscellaneous Measures Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Foreign Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Intelligence Services Act 2001

  to enable an Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) employee to move to an Australian Public Service (APS) agency in the same way that APS employees voluntarily transfer between agencies; and

  Work Health and Safety Act 2011

  to enable the Director-General of ASIS, with the approval of the minister, to make a declaration that specified provisions of the Act do not apply, or apply subject to modifications, in relation to persons carrying out work for the Director-General. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  ,

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2012

  to reduce the amount of baby bonus for second and subsequent children to $3000; the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to provide that family tax benefit continues until the end of the calendar year that a child completes secondary school; the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to extend the double orphan pension qualification period for students completing study; the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  to: replace the baby bonus from 1 March 2014 with: an increase to the family tax benefit Part A payment of $2000 for a family’s first child and $1000 for second and subsequent children; and a stillborn baby payment; reduce to one year the claim period for family assistance lump sum claims; provide that certain students who are unable to attend school due to special circumstances are still eligible to receive the schoolkids bonus; enable certain clean energy supplement arrears to be paid straight away; and provide that a member of a couple is entitled to a clean energy advance top-up in certain situations; five Acts to clarify that the baby bonus is only paid at around the time a child first enters a person’s care; the Paid Parental Leave Act 2010 to: enable a person to count previous paid parental leave towards satisfying the work test for the purposes of a new claim; and set out how paid parental leave applies to dad and partner pay claims made in prescribed circumstances; the

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to clarify that customers who end payment on a quarterly basis of clean energy supplement, pension supplement or seniors supplement do not have to wait to be paid arrears; and the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Towards Transparency) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Feb 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  ABBOTT, Tony, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to: make it a civil offence for a reporting unit not to lodge a compliant full or concise report with Fair Work Australia; impose penalties on officers of registered organisations who do not act in good faith, or misuse their position or information obtained; increase pecuniary penalty orders that the Federal Court may make; and make it a criminal offence for a registered organisation, or officers of a registered organisation, not to comply with applicable orders of a state or Federal Court. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Arbitration) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Feb 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KATTER, Bob, Jnr, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to provide that Fair Work Australia may deal with disputes by arbitration, mediation or conciliation, or by making a recommendation or expressing an opinion. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 4) 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Nov 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Deregulation 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997

  to replace references to ‘Commonwealth Procurement Guidelines’ with ‘guidelines in relation to procurement’;

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to enable the Director of National Parks to enter into contracts with a threshold of $1 million without seeking the minister’s approval;

  Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989

  to establish a special appropriation for the purpose of making remissions or refunds of import levies and manufacture levies, including those related to synthetic greenhouse gas management equipment;

  Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Act 1973

  to establish a framework for dealing with overpayments, and to address instances where payments are made from an appropriation to recipients, that are not, in practice, consistent with the requirements or preconditions imposed by the Act and risk breaching section 83 of the Constitution; and

  Public Accounts and Audit Committee Act 1951

  to reflect gender neutral terms. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Federal Circuit Court of Australia (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Nov 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Consequential on the Federal Circuit Court of Australia Legislation Amendment Bill 2012, the bill amends 83 Acts and the proposed

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2012

  to reflect the renaming of the Federal Magistrates Court to the Federal Circuit Court of Australia and the change in titles of Chief Federal Magistrate to Chief Judge and Federal Magistrate to Judge. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Towards Transparency) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Nov 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  ABETZ, Sen Eric 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to: make it a civil offence for a reporting unit not to lodge a compliant full or concise report with Fair Work Australia; impose penalties on officers of registered organisations who do not act in good faith, or misuse their position or information obtained; increase pecuniary penalty orders that the Federal Court may make; and make it a criminal offence for a registered organisation, or officers of a registered organisation, to not comply with applicable orders of a state or Federal Court. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Tackling Job Insecurity) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Nov 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BANDT, Adam, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: enable casual and rolling contract employees or their union representative to request an employer for a secure employment arrangement; provide that Fair Work Australia (FWA) can issue a secure employment order if an employee’s request is refused; enable FWA to make orders to maintain existing secure employment arrangements; enable unions and employer associations to apply directly to FWA for secure employment orders; and preserve the right of small businesses to use casual employees. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum