Bill
Fair Work Amendment (Stop Work to Stop Warming) Bill 2019
lapsed, as at 2020-03-24. (s) BANDT, Adam, MP portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Adam Bandt
- Portfolio
- (s) BANDT, Adam, MP
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-09-16
- second reading — 2019-09-16
- other — 2020-03-24
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 2019-09-16.
The bill would make it clear that workers covered by the Fair Work Act 2009 can strike or take other industrial action to demand government and employer action on climate change.
It would create a new type of industrial action, called protected climate change industrial action, that shields employees from legal consequences under any Australian law as long as they do not threaten anyone's life or safety.
The bill would also let employees and employers bargain over climate change matters in enterprise agreements, with the usual rules on protected action applying to such bargaining.
- Creates a new category of industrial action with blanket legal immunity for climate change protests.
- Allows climate change matters to be included in enterprise agreements.
- Extends existing protected industrial action rules to cover bargaining about climate change.
Employees covered by the Fair Work Act 2009, their employers, and unions.
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