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• Workplace Relations Amendment (Improved Remedies for Unprotected Action) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Jun 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  to ensure that applications for orders to prevent unprotected industrial action are dealt with quickly and that, in dealing with applications, the Australian Industrial Relations Commission takes into account the undesirability of unprotected action. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Jun 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988

  ,

  Seafarers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1992

  and

  Seafarers Rehabilitation and Compensation Levy Collection Act 1992

  to: effect the transfer of operational responsibility for the Seafarers Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Authority from the Department of Employment and Workplace Relation to Comcare; and make minor and technical amendments, including removing the requirement for ministerial approval of contracts over $500 000 and delegation of rehabilitation powers and functions by the Chief of the Defence Force; and

  National Labour Consultative Council Act 1977

  to: rename the Council as the National Workplace Relations Consultative Council; update the purpose and membership provisions and travelling allowance provisions; and includes a regulation-making power. Also makes consequential amendments to the

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977

  and

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  , minor and technical amendments to 7 other Acts and contains application provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Improved Protection for Victorian Workers) Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Mar 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  in relation to: safety net entitlements for employees in Victoria not covered by federal awards or agreements; access by Victorian employees to federal awards system; minimum pay rates for Victorian contract workers in the textiles, clothing and footwear industries; and annual leave entitlements for Victorian employees. Also contains application and saving provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Registration and Accountability of Organisations) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Mar 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  in relation to the registration, amalgamation and internal administration and regulation of registered organisations, including election processes, duties of officers and employees of those organisations, financial accountability and disclosure, democratic control and penalties for breaches. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Transmission of Business) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Mar 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  to empower the Australian Industrial Relations Commission to make an order that a certified agreement does not bind a new employer as a result of a transfer of a business, or only binds the new employer to a specified extent. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Registration and Accountability of Organisations) (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Mar 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Further to the Workplace Relations Amendment (Registration and Accountability of Organisations) Bill 2002, the bill: makes consequential amendments, including the repeal of certain provisions of the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  ; and contains transitional and savings provisions; also amends the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  to: correct errors and omissions; and remove obsolete references; and makes consequential amendments to 20 other Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Fair Termination) Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Feb 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the termination of employment provisions of the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  by: excluding certain classes of employees, including short-term casual employees; validating the operation of regulations purporting to exclude short-term casual employees (following a Federal Court decision invalidating these regulations) from the time the regulations were made to the commencement of the new termination provisions in this bill; and providing for payment, and indexation, of a lodgment fee for termination of employment applications; and Workplace Relations Regulations 1996 to repeal now invalidated provisions excluding certain classes of employees from termination of employment provisions. Also contains an application provision. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Genuine Bargaining) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Feb 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  to: list factors to be taken into account by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission when considering whether a negotiating party is not genuinely trying to reach agreement; and empower the Commission to make orders in relation to new bargaining periods. Also contains application provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Wool International Amendment Bill 2001

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Aug 2001 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Wool Services Privatisation Bill 2000

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Sep 2000 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum