Bill
Fair Work Amendment (Equal Pay for Equal Work) Bill 2022
lapsed, as at 2025-07-21.
- Sponsor
- Malcolm Roberts
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2022-02-10
- second reading — 2022-02-10
- other — 2022-07-25
- other — 2022-07-27
- second reading — 2022-11-30
- second reading — 2022-11-30
- other — 2025-07-21
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 2022-02-10.
The bill would require labour hire workers covered by certain modern awards to be paid at least the same rate as directly employed workers.
It would insert a provision into the Fair Work Act 2009 that guides the Fair Work Commission to include an equal pay for equal work requirement in enterprise agreements under those awards.
The Minister could add further awards by disallowable instrument where a market failure appears, and the bill applies only to pay rates and is not retrospective.
- Requires labour hire workers under certain modern awards to receive pay equal to or greater than directly employed workers.
- Removes the incentive for employers to use labour hire contracts for lower wages.
- Allows the Minister to add additional awards by disallowable instrument in response to market failures.
Labour hire workers covered by certain modern awards, their employers, and the Fair Work Commission.
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