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Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025

Introduced by Amanda Rishworth

Amends the Fair Work Act 2009 to establish a principle requiring the Fair Work Commission to ensure that penalty and overtime rates are not reduced and that modern awards do not include terms that substitute employees’ entitlements to receive penalty or overtime rates where those terms would have the effect of reducing that additional remuneration employees would otherwise receive.

Summary from the official bill homepage.

Became law

ActFair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Act 2025
NumberNo. 37, 2025
Assent29 Aug 2025
StatusIn force

Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation at 21 Oct 2026. For the latest information on Australian Government law please go to https://www.legislation.gov.au.

Progress

DateStep
House
24 Jul 2025Introduced and read a first time
24 Jul 2025Second reading moved
30 Jul 2025Second reading debate
31 Jul 2025Second reading debate
31 Jul 2025Second reading agreed to
31 Jul 2025Consideration in detail debate
31 Jul 2025Third reading agreed to
Senate
25 Aug 2025Introduced and read a first time
25 Aug 2025Second reading moved
25 Aug 2025Second reading debate
26 Aug 2025Second reading debate
27 Aug 2025Second reading agreed to
27 Aug 2025Committee of the Whole debate
28 Aug 2025Committee of the Whole debate
28 Aug 2025Third reading agreed to
28 Aug 2025Finally passed both Houses
29 Aug 2025Assent

Divisions on this bill

Official record: bill homepage at aph.gov.au, full text and documents on ParlInfo.