Bill
Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Bill 2013
lapsed, as at 2015-08-17. Employment portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Employment
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2013-11-14
- second reading — 2013-11-14
- second reading — 2013-12-02
- second reading — 2013-12-12
- second reading — 2013-12-12
- third reading — 2013-12-12
- introduced — 2014-02-11
- second reading — 2014-02-11
- second reading — 2015-03-04
- second reading — 2015-03-05
- second reading — 2015-08-12
- second reading — 2015-08-17
- second reading — 2015-08-17
Divisions
- Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Read a second time — 2013-12-12, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 83, noes 43
- Long debate text truncated. — 2015-08-17, Senate: negative, ayes 33, noes 33
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2013-11-14.
The bill would re-establish a national regulator for the building and construction industry.
It would set up the Australian Building and Construction Commission to enforce workplace laws and the Building Code.
The government plans to move amendments clarifying the bill's application to offshore platforms and ships, and adding enforcement powers to the Building Code.
- Re-establish the Australian Building and Construction Commission.
- Clarify that building work includes transporting employees and contractors to building sites.
- Add new matters to the Building Code for monitoring and enforcement.
- Let the Building Code give the ABC Commissioner functions to enforce it.
- Ensure code-authorized actions are not subject to coercion prohibitions in clause 54.
The building and construction industry, including employers, employees, and contractors on offshore resources platforms and ships.
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