Bill
Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Take Home Pay) Bill 2017
lapsed, as at 2018-03-27.
- Sponsor
- Bill Shorten
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-03-20
- second reading — 2017-03-20
- second reading — 2017-03-27
- second reading — 2017-05-22
- second reading — 2017-05-29
- second reading — 2017-06-19
- other — 2017-08-16
- second reading — 2017-09-04
- other — 2018-03-27
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2017-03-20.
The bill would stop modern awards from being changed in a way that cuts an employee's take-home pay.
It would add a new section to the Fair Work Act requiring the Fair Work Commission to not vary awards if the change would reduce take-home pay, including through lower penalty rates or fewer hours those rates apply to.
The bill would also void any determination made from 22 February 2017 that results from the Fair Work Commission's decision AM2014/305.
- Prevents modern award variations that reduce take-home pay.
- Invalidates determinations from decision AM2014/305 made on or after 22 February 2017.
- Defines take-home pay to include wages, incentive payments, allowances and overtime, but not deductions under section 324 of the Fair Work Act.
Employees covered by modern awards and the Fair Work Commission.
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