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Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Take-Home Pay) Bill 2017

Type	Private
Originating house	Senate
Status	Not Proceeding
Sponsor	CAMERON, Sen Doug; DI NATALE, Sen Richard; LAMBIE, Sen Jacqui

Summary

Amends the Fair Work Act 2009 to: ensure that modern awards cannot be varied to reduce penalty rates or the hours to which penalties rates apply if the variation is likely to result in a reduction in the take-home pay of an employee; and provide that any such determination by the Fair Work Commission made on or after 22 February 2017 is of no effect.

Progress of bill

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Senate
Introduced and read a first time	21/03/17
Second reading moved	21/03/17
Second reading debate	23/03/17
Second reading debate	30/03/17
Second reading agreed to	30/03/17
Third reading agreed to	30/03/17

House of Representatives
Introduced and read a first time	30/03/17 (after midnight)
Lapsed at dissolution	11/04/19