"The Bill implements two key recommendations of the Productivity Commission Review into the Workplace Relations Framework:
- Firstly, to abolish the requirement for the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to conduct reviews of awards every four years. The last 4 Yearly Review is still continuing after 5 years, with no end in sight.
- Secondly, to give the FWC more discretion to overlook minor technical errors when enterprise agreements are made and lodged for approval, provided that employees are not disadvantaged.
"Ai Group expresses its thanks to the Government, Opposition and those Crossbenchers who supported the Bill. The Bill has been stalled in Parliament for the past 18 months and it is great to see that the Bill has finally been approved," Mr Willox said.
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