Bill
Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Take-Home Pay) Bill 2017
lapsed, as at 2019-04-11.
- Sponsor
- Doug Cameron
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-03-21
- second reading — 2017-03-21
- second reading — 2017-03-23
- second reading — 2017-03-30
- second reading — 2017-03-30
- third reading — 2017-03-30
- introduced — 2017-03-30
- other — 2019-04-11
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 2017-03-21.
The bill would stop modern awards from being changed to reduce employees' take-home pay, including cuts to penalty rates or the hours they apply to.
It would amend the Fair Work Act 2009 to prevent the Fair Work Commission from varying a modern award if the change would likely reduce any employee's take-home pay.
The bill would also invalidate any determination from the Fair Work Commission's decision AM2014/305 that would cut take-home pay, and it would take effect the day after Royal Assent.
- Prevents the Fair Work Commission from varying modern awards to reduce take-home pay.
- Invalidates any determination from decision AM2014/305 that would cut take-home pay.
- Defines take-home pay to include wages, incentive payments, allowances, and overtime, and ensures employees receive the full benefit of minimum wage increases.
Employees covered by modern awards, including prospective employees, and the Fair Work Commission.
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