Bill
Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2013
lapsed, as at 2014-05-14. Employment portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Employment
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2013-11-14
- second reading — 2013-11-14
- second reading — 2013-12-03
- second reading — 2013-12-11
- second reading — 2013-12-12
- second reading — 2013-12-12
- third reading — 2013-12-12
- introduced — 2013-12-12
- second reading — 2013-12-12
- second reading — 2014-05-13
- second reading — 2014-05-14
- second reading — 2014-05-14
Divisions
- Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea — 2013-12-12, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 72, noes 50
- Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Agree to the bill's main idea — 2014-05-14, Senate: negative, ayes 29, noes 36
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2013-11-14.
This bill aims to improve how registered organisations like unions and employer groups are run and overseen.
It would set up a new independent body called the Registered Organisations Commission with stronger investigation powers.
Penalties would rise and new criminal offences would apply for serious misconduct by officers, mirroring rules for company directors.
- Establishes the Registered Organisations Commission as an independent regulator.
- Strengthens financial reporting and transparency rules by making some obligations enforceable as civil remedy provisions.
- Increases civil penalties and creates criminal offences for serious breaches of officers' duties.
- Expands disclosure requirements for officers' material personal interests and changes grounds for disqualification from office.
- Gives the Commissioner investigation and information-gathering powers modelled on those in the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001.
Registered organisations, their branches, and their officers.
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