![]() ![]() Adding an additional requirement to the single interest, multi-employer bargaining stream that the operations and business activities of the employers must be ‘reasonably comparable’.Excluding small businesses with fewer than 20 employees from the single interest, multi-employer bargaining stream.Review - Inserting a commitment for Government to review the operation of amendments, with such a review to start within 2 years after Royal Assent.We have created two versions – one in clean, and another showing in mark-up the changes made to the Bill since it was first tabled in the House of Representatives on 27 October 2022.ĭownload our full summary (with markups) AMENDMENTS TO THE BILL IN THE SENATEĪ significant number of changes were made to the Bill in the Senate, many of which related to the multi-enterprise bargaining provisions. Our full summary provides an overview of the key elements of the Act and what it means for Australian employers. While further industrial relations reform (such as on ‘same job, same pay’, among other topics) is expected to follow next year, the reforms passed are significant and will substantively impact how Australian employers structure and manage their workforces and set terms and conditions of employment. The passage of the Act marks the most extensive industrial relations reform seen since the introduction of the Fair Work Act some 13 years ago, and the impact of this legislation is significant.
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