Bill
Fair Work Amendment (Penalty Rates Exemption for Small Businesses) Bill 2015
lapsed, as at 2019-07-01.
- Sponsor
- LEYONHJELM, Sen David
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2015-08-13
- second reading — 2015-08-13
- second reading — 2015-09-17
- other — 2016-04-17
- other — 2016-08-31
- other — 2019-07-01
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 2015-08-13.
The bill would let small businesses in certain industries avoid paying penalty rates to employees.
It would change modern awards so that penalty rates are only required when an employee works more than ten hours in a day, on a public holiday, or on a weekend after 38 hours of work in a week.
The bill defines a small business as having fewer than 20 employees and applies to the restaurant, catering and retail sectors covered by the Hospitality Industry (General) Award 2010.
- Exempts small businesses in specified industries from penalty rate requirements in modern awards.
- Sets three conditions under which penalty rates must still be paid.
- Defines a small business as one with fewer than 20 employees.
Small businesses with fewer than 20 employees in the restaurant, catering and retail industries covered by the Hospitality Industry (General) Award 2010, and their employees.
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