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senate vote 2022-12-01#6
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Bills — Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022; in Committee- Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Industrial action and firefighter cancer
Description
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- The majority voted against a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2022-12-01.402.1) to keep items 584 and 667 of schedule 1 unchanged (i.e., "stand as printed"), which means those items will be removed from the bill. This vote took place in response to [Government amendments (35) and (63)](https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:legislation/billhome/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22legislation%2Famend%2Fr6941_amend_49517b6e-43b8-4806-92c7-ef97f392ac2b%22;rec=0), which moved to opposed those items.
- ### Text of items 584 and 667
- > *584 Subsection 443(3A)*
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- > *Repeal the subsection, substitute:*
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- >> *(3A) For the purposes of paragraph (3)(c), the FWC:*
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- >>> *(a) subject to paragraph (b), must specify a date that will enable the protected action ballot to be conducted as expeditiously as practicable; and*
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- >>> *(b) must not specify a date that is earlier than 14 days after the day the order is made.*
- > *667 Subsection 7(8) (after table item 12)*
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- > *Insert:*
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- >> *12A - Malignant mesothelioma - 15 years*
- ### Text of Government amendment
- > *(35) Schedule 1, item 584, page 195 (lines 1 to 8), to be opposed .*
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- >> *[industrial action—period for protected action ballot]*
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- > *(63) Schedule 1, item 667, page 266 (lines 12 to 15), to be opposed .*
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- >> *[firefighters—cancers]*
- ### Explanation of amendment
- According to the [supplementary explanatory memorandum](https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:legislation/billhome/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22legislation%2Fems%2Fr6941_ems_ea4f7abc-7d2e-4c06-98a3-a81030b14a5a%22;rec=0):
- > *This amendment [no. (35)] would remove item 584 from the Bill to restore the FWC’s discretion to determine the timetable for the conduct of protected action ballots. The requirement that the FWC specifies a date for the close of the ballot which will enable the ballot to be conducted as expeditiously as practicable remains in subsection 443(3A).*
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- > *This [amendment no. 63] would remove item 667 from the Bill so that malignant mesothelioma can instead be prescribed by regulations for the purposes of subsection 7(8) of the SRC Act.*
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