Bill
Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2014
lapsed, as at 2015-03-02. Employment portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Employment
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2014-06-19
- second reading — 2014-06-19
- second reading — 2014-06-25
- second reading — 2014-07-14
- second reading — 2014-07-15
- second reading — 2014-07-15
- committee — 2014-07-15
- third reading — 2014-07-15
- introduced — 2014-07-17
- second reading — 2014-07-17
- second reading — 2015-02-11
- second reading — 2015-02-12
- second reading — 2015-03-02
- second reading — 2015-03-02
Divisions
- Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2014 - Second Reading - Agree to bill's main idea — 2015-03-02, Senate: negative, ayes 30, noes 33
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2014-06-19.
The bill would create stronger governance and financial transparency rules for unions and employer associations.
It would set up a new body called the Registered Organisations Commission to monitor these groups and investigate wrongdoing.
The commissioner would have powers similar to those of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission under the Corporations Act 2001.
- Establishes the Registered Organisations Commission as an independent regulator.
- Requires officers to disclose material personal interests and restricts their voting and decision-making rights.
- Increases civil penalties and creates criminal offences for serious breaches of officers' duties.
- Strengthens financial accounting, disclosure and transparency obligations by making rule obligations enforceable as civil remedy provisions.
Registered organisations, their branches and their officers.
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