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FAIR WORK AMENDMENT (GENDER PAY GAP) BILL 2015

 

 

 

2013-2014-2015 

 

The Parliament of the 

Commonwealth of Australia 

 

THE SENATE 

 

 

 

 

Presented and read a first time 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fair Work Amendment (Gender Pay 

Gap) Bill 2015 

 

No.      , 2015 

 

(Senator Waters) 

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to amend the Fair Work Act 2009

and for related purposes 

   

   

 

 

No.      , 2015 

Fair Work Amendment (Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2015 

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Contents 

Short title ........................................................................................... 1

 

Commencement ................................................................................. 1

 

Schedules ........................................................................................... 2

 

Schedule 1--Amendments

 

3

 

Fair Work Act 2009

 

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No.      , 2015 

Fair Work Amendment (Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2015 

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A Bill for an Act to amend the Fair Work Act 2009

and for related purposes 

The Parliament of Australia enacts: 

1  Short title 

 

  This Act may be cited as the Fair Work Amendment (Gender Pay 

Gap) Act 2015

2  Commencement 

 

(1)  Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table 

commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with 

column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect 

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according to its terms. 

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Fair Work Amendment (Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2015 

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Commencement information 

Column 1 

Column 2 

Column 3 

Provisions 

Commencement 

Date/Details 

1.  The whole of 

the Act 

The day after this Act receives the Royal 

Assent. 

 

Note: 

This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally 

enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of 

this Act. 

 

(2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. 

Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it 

may be edited, in any published version of this Act. 

3  Schedules 

 

  Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or 

repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule 

concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect 

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according to its terms. 

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Amendments  Schedule 1 

   

 

 

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Fair Work Amendment (Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2015 

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Schedule 1

--Amendments 

   

Fair Work Act 2009 

1  Paragraph 5(8)(b) 

Omit "and high-income employees", insert ", high income employees 

and certain terms that have no effect". 

2  Section 321 

After: 

Division 3 is about the guarantee of annual earnings that may be 

given to a national system employee whose earnings exceed the 

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high income threshold. Modern awards do not apply to such an 

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employee. 

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Insert: 

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Division 4 is about terms that have no effect. 

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3  At the end of Part 2-9 

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Add: 

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Division 4--Certain terms have no effect 

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333B  Terms prohibiting disclosure of pay have no effect 

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  A term of a modern award, an enterprise agreement or a contract of 

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employment has no effect to the extent that the term: 

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(a)  prohibits an employee from disclosing the amount of, or 

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information about, the employee's pay or earnings; or 

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(b)  permits, or has the effect of permitting, an employer to take 

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adverse action against an employee if the employee discloses 

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the amount of, or information about, the employee's pay or 

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earnings. 

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Schedule 1  Amendments 

   

 

 

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Fair Work Amendment (Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2015 

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4  At the end of Schedule 1 

Add: 

Part 3

--Amendments made by the Fair Work 

Amendment (Gender Pay Gap) Act 2015 

13  Definitions 

In this Part: 

amended Act means this Act as amended by the Fair Work Amendment 

(Gender Pay Gap) Act 2015

14  Application of section 333B 

Section 333B of the amended Act applies in relation to a modern award, 

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enterprise agreement or a contract of employment that is in operation on 

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or after the day on which this item commences, whether or not the 

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award, agreement or contract was made or entered into before that day. 

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