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WORKPLACE RELATIONS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (YOUTH EMPLOYMENT) BILL 1998

1998

The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES


Presented and read a first time









Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Youth Employment) Bill 1998

No. , 1998

(Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business)



A Bill for an Act to amend legislation relating to workplace relations

ISBN: 0642 378398

Contents

A Bill for an Act to amend legislation relating to workplace relations

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Youth Employment) Act 1998.

2 Commencement

(1) Sections 1, 2 and 3 commence on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

(2) The Schedules to this Act commence on the 28th day after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

3 Schedule(s)

Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Workplace Relations Act 1996

1 After paragraph 3(a)

Insert:

(aa) protecting the competitive position of young people in the labour market, promoting youth employment and assisting in reducing youth unemployment; and

2 Paragraph 88A(d)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

(d) the Commission’s functions and powers in relation to making and varying awards are performed and exercised in a way that:

(i) encourages the making of agreements between employers and employees at the workplace or enterprise level; and

(ii) protects the competitive position of young people in the labour market, promotes youth employment and assists in reducing youth unemployment.

3 After paragraph 88B(3)(b)

Insert:

(ba) the need to protect the competitive position of young people in the labour market, to promote youth employment, and to assist in reducing youth unemployment, through appropriate junior wage provisions;

4 At the end of section 88B

Add:

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3)(e), junior wage provisions are not to be treated as constituting discrimination by reason of age.

5 After paragraph 143(1C)(e)

Insert:

(ea) if it applies to work that is or may be performed by young people—supports youth employment by including, where appropriate, junior rates of pay; and

6 Subsection 143(1E)

Repeal the subsection.

7 Subsection 170LU(7)

Repeal the subsection.

Schedule 2—Amendment of the Workplace Relations and Other Legislation Amendment Act 1996

1 After paragraph 51(7)(e) of Schedule 5

Insert:

(ea) if it applies to work that is or may be performed by young people—supports youth employment by including, where appropriate, junior rates of pay; and

2 Subitem 54(2) of Schedule 5

Repeal the subitem.

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