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10 Nov 2022 · 9:31 AM · Division 2

Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022

Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Official title
Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea

Second reading agreed to

Aye
80
No
59
Not recorded voting
12

“Not recorded voting” is everyone eligible who isn't recorded as Aye or No, for example absent, paired, or presiding.

What was decided

The majority voted in favour of a motion "that the bill be read a second time", which is parliamentary jargon for agreeing with the main idea of the bill.

What is the bill's main idea?

According to the bills digest:

The Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022 aims to make numerous changes to industrial relations legislation with the intention of:

  • encouraging and facilitating enterprise bargaining, and multi-business enterprise bargaining in particular
  • simplifying the bargaining and approval processes for enterprise agreements, including simplifying the better off overall test (BOOT)
  • improving job security and gender equity, including by limiting the use of fixed term contracts and prohibiting pay secrecy clauses
  • improving workplace conditions and protections by providing an enforceable right to request flexible working arrangements
  • abolishing the Australian Building and Construction Commission and making the Fair Work Ombudsman the workplace relations regulator for the building and construction industry
  • abolishing the Registered Organisations Commission and transferring its functions to the General Manager of the Fair Work Commission and
  • enacting other measures not examined in this Digest.

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Policies this vote counts towards

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Votes by party

Both bars use the same scale: number of members.
Aye
80
No
58
Votes by party as a table
PartyAyeNo
Australian Labor Party720
Liberal Party030
Independent38
National Party010
Liberal National Party08
Australian Greens40
Centre Alliance01
Katter's Australian Party10
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party01

How each member voted

Aye · 80

No · 58

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