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2010-2011-2012

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

THE SENATE

Fair Work Amendment (Textile, Clothing and Footwear Industry) Bill 2011

(Amendment to be moved by the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Senator Abetz, in committee of the whole)

(1)     Schedule 1, item 61, page 25 (after line 12), at the end of Division 5 of Part 6-4A, add:

789EB  TCF outworkers not to be worse off

             (1)  This Part applies in relation to a TCF outworker only to the extent to which , in a particular respect, the outworker would not be worse off.

             (2)  A reference in subsection (1) to this Part includes a reference to any regulations made for the purposes of this Part.

             (3)  The regulations may prescribe:

                     (a)  what a particular respect is for the purposes of subsection (1); or

                     (b)  the circumstances in which a TCF outworker would or would not be worse off for the purposes of subsection (1).

[outworkers not worse off]