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2019
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Fair Work Amendment (Stop Work to
Stop Warming) Bill 2019
No. , 2019
(Mr Bandt)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Fair Work Act 2009,
and for related purposes
No. , 2019
Fair Work Amendment (Stop Work to Stop Warming) Bill 2019
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Contents
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Short title ........................................................................................... 1
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Commencement ................................................................................. 1
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Schedules ........................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1--Amendments
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Fair Work Act 2009
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No. , 2019
Fair Work Amendment (Stop Work to Stop Warming) Bill 2019
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A Bill for an Act to amend the Fair Work Act 2009,
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and for related purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act is the Fair Work Amendment (Stop Work to Stop
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Warming) Act 2019.
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2 Commencement
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(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
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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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Commencement information
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provisions
Commencement
Date/Details
1. The whole of
this Act
The day after this Act receives the Royal
Assent.
Note:
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of
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this Act.
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(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act.
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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it
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may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
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3 Schedules
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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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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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Schedule 1--Amendments
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Fair Work Act 2009
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1 Section 12
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Insert:
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protected climate change industrial action: see
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subsection 477A(1).
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2 At the end of subsection 172(1)
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Add:
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; (e) matters pertaining to climate change.
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3 Paragraph 341(2)(c)
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After "protected industrial action", insert "or protected climate change
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industrial action".
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4 Section
406 (paragraph beginning "Division 10")
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Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
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Division 10 deals with the making of applications under this Part.
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It also deals with protected climate change industrial action. No
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action lies under any law in force in a State or Territory in relation
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to protected climate change industrial action except in certain
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circumstances. The FWC may make orders, in certain
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circumstances, that protected climate change industrial action stop,
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not occur or not be organised.
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5 At the end of subsections 409(1) and 410(1)
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Add:
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; and (e) is not protected climate change industrial action.
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6 At the end of section 411
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Add:
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; and (d) is not protected climate change industrial action.
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Schedule 1 Amendments
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7 Subsection 417(1)
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After "in industrial action", insert "(other than protected climate change
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industrial action)".
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8 Subsection 418(1)
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After "protected industrial action", insert "or protected climate change
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industrial action".
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9 Subsection 419(1)
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After "that industrial action", insert "(other than protected climate
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change industrial action)".
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10 Paragraph 421(2)(b)
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After "protected industrial action", insert "or protected climate change
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industrial action".
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11 Subsection 474(1)
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After "protected industrial action" insert "or protected climate change
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industrial action".
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12 After section 477
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Insert:
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477A Protected climate change industrial action
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(1) No action lies under any law (whether written or unwritten) in
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force in a State or Territory in relation to any industrial action
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(protected climate change industrial action) referred to in
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subsection (2) unless the industrial action has involved or is likely
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to involve:
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(a) personal injury; or
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(b) wilful or reckless destruction of, or damage to, property; or
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(c) the unlawful taking, keeping or use of property.
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(2) The industrial action is any failure or refusal by employees to
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attend for work for the purpose of demanding that action be taken
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to address climate change.
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(3) However, subsection (1) does not prevent an action for defamation
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being brought in relation to anything that occurred in the course of
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industrial action.
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477B FWC must order that protected climate change industrial
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action stop if endangering life etc.
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Orders to stop protected climate change industrial action
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(1) The FWC must make an order that protected climate change
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industrial action stop, not occur or not be organised (as the case
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may be) if:
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(a) the protected climate change industrial action is being
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engaged in or is threatened, impending or probable; and
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(b) the FWC is satisfied that the protected climate change
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industrial action has threatened, is threatening, or would
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threaten to endanger the life, the personal safety or health, or
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the welfare, of the population or of part of it.
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(2) The FWC may make the order:
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(a) on its own initiative; or
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(b) on application by any of the following:
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(i) the Minister;
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(ii) if the industrial action is being engaged in, or is
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threatened, impending or probable, in a State that is a
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referring State as defined in section 30B or 30L--the
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Minister of the State who has responsibility for
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workplace relations matters in the State;
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(iii) if the industrial action is being engaged in, or is
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threatened, impending or probable, in a Territory--the
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Minister of the Territory who has responsibility for
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workplace relations matters in the Territory;
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(iv) a person prescribed by the regulations.
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Application must be determined within 5 days
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(3) If an application for an order under this section is made, the FWC
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must, as far as practicable, determine the application within 5 days
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after it is made.
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Schedule 1 Amendments
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Interim orders
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(4) If the FWC is unable to determine the application within that
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period, the FWC must, within that period, make an interim order
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suspending the protected climate change industrial action to which
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the application relates until the application is determined.
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(5) An interim order continues in operation until the application is
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determined.
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13 In the appropriate position in Schedule 1
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Insert:
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Part 9--Amendments made by the Fair Work
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Amendment (Stop Work to Stop Warming)
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Act 2019
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40 Application of sections 477A and 477B
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Sections 477A and 477B of this Act as inserted by the Fair Work
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Amendment (Stop Work to Stop Warming) Act 2019 apply in relation to
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industrial action that occurs on or after the commencement of this Part.
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