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28 Aug 2025 · 11:08 AM · Division 5

Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025

in Committee - Mandatory terms must be not less favourable
Official title
Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 - in Committee - Mandatory terms must be not less favourable

Noes in the majority

This says only which side won the vote, because what Aye and No meant here depends on the exact question put in the chamber.

Aye
13
No
30
Not recorded voting
32

“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 against amendments (1) and (2) on sheet 3382 introduced by South Australian Senator Barbara Pocock (Greens), which means they failed.

Senator Pocock explained that this amendment would have:

clarifie[d] that, where there is an agreement in place, where parties are negotiating for a new one and one party has applied for an intractable bargaining workplace determination, the determination can't take workers backwards. Each term of the determination must be no less favourable than the corresponding term of the agreement. It restores the position that your current agreement stays in place until you negotiate a new one.

See OAF.org.au for the full amendment text.

Summary written by They Vote For You contributors. Read it with the debate

Votes by party

Both bars use the same scale: number of members.
Aye
13
No
30
Votes by party as a table
PartyAyeNo
Australian Labor Party024
Australian Greens100
Liberal Party04
Australia's Voice10
Deputy Senate President01
Independent10
Senate President01
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party10

How each member voted

Aye · 13

No · 30

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