Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Bill 2023

The majority voted in favour of a motion to keep parts 6, 7 and 14A and divisions 3, 4 and 6 in item 308 of schedule 1 unchanged, which means they'll remain as they are in the bill.

This vote took place after West Australian Senator Michaelia Cash (Liberal) proposed that they be omitted.

What do these parts do?

According to the bills digest:

Part 6 of Schedule 1 to the Bill deals with pay disparity between the employees of a host business and labour hire workers supplied by another business but who are performing the same or similar work for the host business.

And Part 7 provides:

a framework for workplace delegates’ rights and include protections for workplace delegates when seeking to exercise those rights (for example, by exercising right of entry).

Part 14A contains amendments relating to mediation and conciliation conference orders made under section 448A of the Fair Work Act 2009. And divisions 3, 4 and 6 in item 308 are application and transitional provisions.