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

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.