Bill
Fair Work Amendment (Right to Request Casual Conversion) Bill 2019
lapsed, as at 2019-04-11. Jobs and Small Business portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Jobs and Small Business
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-02-13
- second reading — 2019-02-13
- other — 2019-04-11
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 2019-02-13.
The bill would add a new right to the Fair Work Act 2009 allowing eligible casual employees to ask to become full-time or part-time workers.
Employers would have to respond in writing within 21 days, and can only refuse after consulting the employee and on reasonable grounds.
The right follows a model clause developed by the Fair Work Commission, which already applies to 85 modern awards since 1 October 2018.
- Insert a new right to request casual conversion into the National Employment Standards.
- Require employers to give a written response within 21 days and to consult before refusing.
- Provide a dispute resolution mechanism for disagreements about the new right.
- Allow employees to revert to casual employment with written employer agreement.
- Prohibit employers from avoiding the right by re-engaging or reducing hours.
- Clarify how pre-conversion casual service counts for other entitlements.
Eligible casual employees in the national system and their employers.
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