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senate vote 2022-11-30#7

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Title

  • Bills — Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022; Second Reading
  • Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea

Description

  • <p class="speaker">Claire Chandler</p>
  • <p>The question is that the bill be read a second time.</p>
  • The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2022-11-30.173.1) "*that the bill be [read a second time](https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/bills-and-laws/making-a-law-in-the-australian-parliament/)*", 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](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd2223a/23bd034):
  • > *The Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022 aims to make numerous changes to industrial relations legislation with the intention of:*
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  • > * *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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