Bill
Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Protecting Vulnerable Workers) Bill 2024
lapsed, as at 2025-07-21.
- Sponsor
- Lambie
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-02-27
- second reading — 2024-02-27
- second reading — 2024-02-29
- 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 2024-02-27.
The bill would let vulnerable workers in the Manufacturing Division of the CFMEU vote to leave the union.
It adds a new schedule to the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009 allowing the Manufacturing Division to hold a secret ballot on de-merger.
The application for the ballot must be made before 1 September 2024.
- The bill enables the Manufacturing Division within the CFMEU to hold a secret ballot to de-merge.
- The bill adds Schedule 3 to the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009.
- The bill sets a deadline of 1 September 2024 for the application.
Vulnerable workers in the Manufacturing Division, including the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Sector, who are members of the CFMEU.
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