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Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009 (No. 55, 2009).

Country(ies)

Australia

Subjects (Classification)

Labour codes, general labour and employment acts

Adopted on (Date of text)

2009-06-25

Scope of text

National

Type of legislation (Type of text)

Law, Act

Abstract/Citation

Repeals the current Workplace Relations Act 1996 and sets out sensible and practical transitional provisions for the movement of employers and employees into the new system regulated under the Fair Work Act.

Schedule 1 - Repeals [repeals the Workplace Relations Act 1996 1 Sections 3 to 18, Parts 2 to 23 and Schedules 2 to 9]
Schedule 2 - Overarching Schedule about transitional matters
Schedule 3 - Continued existence of awards, workplace agreements and certain other WR Act instruments
Schedule 4 - National Employment Standards
Schedule 5 - Modern awards (other than enterprise awards)
Schedule 6 - Modern enterprise awards
Schedule 7 - Enterprise agreements and workplace determinations made under the FW Act
Schedule 8 - Workplace agreements and workplace determinations made under the WR Act
Schedule 9 - Minimum wages
Schedule 10 - Equal remuneration
Schedule 11 - Transfer of business
Schedule 12 - General protections
Schedule 12A - Unfair dismissal
Schedule 13 - Bargaining and industrial action
Schedule 14 - Right of entry
Schedule 15 - Stand down
Schedule 16 - Compliance
Schedule 17 - Amendments relating to the Fair Work Divisions of the Federal Court and the Federal Magistrates Court
Schedule 18 - Institutions
Schedule 19 - Dealing with disputes
Schedule 20 - WR Act transitional awards etc.
Schedule 21 - Clothing Trades Award 1999
Schedule 22 - Registered organisations
Schedule 23 - Other amendments of the FW Act