Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025
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.
Divisions on this bill
- 30 Jul 2025Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 - Reference to Committee - Standing Committee on Education and EmploymentHouse 42–90
- 31 Jul 2025Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 - Second Reading - Increase flexibilityHouse 42–89
- 31 Jul 2025Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 - Consideration in Detail - Penalty and overtime ratesHouse 40–93
- 27 Aug 2025Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 - Second Reading - Small businessesSenate 27–33
- 27 Aug 2025Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 - Second Reading - Work from homeSenate 11–33
- 27 Aug 2025Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 - Second Reading - Small businessesSenate 8–34
- 28 Aug 2025Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 - in Committee - Fair Work Commission's discretionSenate 25–34
- 28 Aug 2025Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 - in Committee - Small business exclusionSenate 26–33
- 28 Aug 2025Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 - in Committee - Regulation impact statementSenate 27–32
- 28 Aug 2025Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 - in Committee - Flexible working arrangementsSenate 12–29
- 28 Aug 2025Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 - in Committee - Mandatory terms must be not less favourableSenate 13–30
Official record: bill homepage at aph.gov.au.