Bill
Coal Mining Industry (Long Service Leave) Legislation Amendment Bill 2026
passed, as at 2026-07-06. Employment and Workplace Relations portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Employment and Workplace Relations
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-11-26
- second reading — 2025-11-26
- second reading — 2026-03-10
- second reading — 2026-05-28
- second reading — 2026-05-28
- committee — 2026-05-28
- third reading — 2026-05-28
- introduced — 2026-06-22
- second reading — 2026-06-22
- second reading — 2026-07-02
- second reading — 2026-07-02
- third reading — 2026-07-02
- passed — 2026-07-02
- royal assent — 2026-07-06
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 2025-11-26.
This bill would allow employers in the black coal mining industry to voluntarily set up payment plans for long service leave levies they have not paid in the past.
It would replace the outdated method for calculating interest on late levy payments with a rate tied to the Reserve Bank of Australia's cash rate target.
Employers who enter a 6-year instalment plan could get 20% of their debt waived once they pay 80%, and would not face legal action or extra levy during the period.
- The bill creates a voluntary instalment process for overdue long service leave levies.
- It updates how additional levy is calculated for late payments to use the RBA cash rate.
- It allows the Corporation to create employee service records using reasonable assumptions when employer records are incomplete.
Employers in the black coal mining industry who have disputed employee eligibility and owe past levies, and their eligible employees.
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