Bill
Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Bill 2023
passed, as at 2023-09-20. Finance portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Finance
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2023-08-10
- second reading — 2023-08-10
- second reading — 2023-09-07
- second reading — 2023-09-07
- third reading — 2023-09-07
- introduced — 2023-09-11
- second reading — 2023-09-11
- second reading — 2023-09-14
- second reading — 2023-09-14
- committee — 2023-09-14
- third reading — 2023-09-14
- other — 2023-09-14
- passed — 2023-09-14
- royal assent — 2023-09-20
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 2023-08-10.
The bill would create an independent agency to handle human resources and cultural change for federal parliamentarians and their staff.
The agency, called the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service, would centralise HR support, handle complaints, set workplace policies, and provide training.
The bill implements recommendation 11 of the Set the Standard Report and enables the agency to carry out six other recommendations from that report.
- Establishes the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service as an independent statutory agency.
- Gives the agency functions including HR support, complaint resolution, education, training, and policy setting.
- Requires the agency to report regularly on cultural change indicators such as gender and diversity.
Parliamentarians, MOPS employees, and other Commonwealth parliamentary workplace participants.
Sources
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