Bill
Fair Work Laws Amendment (Proper Use of Worker Benefits) Bill 2017
lapsed, as at 2019-07-01. Employment portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Employment
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-10-19
- second reading — 2017-10-19
- second reading — 2017-10-24
- other — 2017-10-24
- second reading — 2017-10-25
- other — 2017-10-26
- second reading — 2017-10-26
- third reading — 2017-10-26
- introduced — 2017-11-13
- second reading — 2017-11-13
- other — 2019-07-01
Divisions
- Fair Work Laws Amendment (Proper Use of Worker Benefits) Bill 2017 - Report from Federation Chamber - Penalty rates — 2017-10-26, House of Representatives: negative, ayes 68, noes 75
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2017-10-19.
This bill would tighten rules on funds that hold worker benefits, following a royal commission's findings on union misconduct.
It would add governance, reporting and disclosure duties for worker entitlement funds and related entities under the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009.
Awards and enterprise agreements could not require employee contributions to funds other than superannuation, registered worker entitlement funds or registered charities.
- The bill would apply financial management and reporting rules to worker entitlement funds.
- It would ban award or agreement terms that require employee contributions to election funds for industrial associations.
- It would prohibit coercing an employer to pay a particular worker entitlement fund or similar fund.
- Registered organisations would have to adopt and review financial management policies.
- They would also need to keep credit card records and report certain loans, grants and donations.
- New penalties would enforce compliance with financial management and disclosure rules.
Registered organisations, worker entitlement funds, employers and employees covered by modern awards or enterprise agreements.
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