Bill
Jobs and Skills Australia (National Skills Commissioner Repeal) Bill 2022
passed, as at 2022-11-09. Employment and Workplace Relations portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Employment and Workplace Relations
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2022-07-27
- second reading — 2022-07-27
- second reading — 2022-09-06
- second reading — 2022-09-07
- second reading — 2022-09-07
- third reading — 2022-09-26
- introduced — 2022-09-27
- second reading — 2022-09-27
- second reading — 2022-10-26
- second reading — 2022-10-26
- committee — 2022-10-26
- third reading — 2022-10-26
- passed — 2022-10-26
- royal assent — 2022-11-09
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 2022-07-27.
This bill is part of a package that would create a new advisory body called Jobs and Skills Australia and, in a separate companion bill, abolish the National Skills Commissioner.
The new agency would research and analyze workforce needs, consult with governments and industry, and advise the relevant ministers, with an interim director appointed by the minister to lead it initially.
The package aims to improve employment opportunities and strengthen the economy, and the government plans to introduce a further bill later to set the agency's permanent design.
- Establishing Jobs and Skills Australia as a statutory body within the employment department.
- Repealing the National Skills Commissioner Act 2020.
- Requiring Jobs and Skills Australia to consult with state and territory governments and key stakeholders.
- Providing for an interim director to lead the agency and support a transition to a permanent model.
Individuals seeking employment, employers, unions, training providers, and state and territory governments would be affected by the new advisory body and the repeal of the commissioner role.
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