Victorian Numbered Acts

PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT (AWARD ENTITLEMENTS) ACT 2006 (NO 15 OF 2006) - NOTES

Act No. 15/2006

Victoria

No. 15 of 2006

Public Sector Employment (Award Entitlements) Act 2006^[†]

[Assented to 11 April 2006]

^[†]     Minister's second reading speech—

    Legislative Assembly: 8 February 2006

    Legislative Council: 4 April 2006

    The long title for the Bill for this Act was "to protect employment entitlements of certain public sector employees, to amend the Workplace Rights Advocate Act 2005 and the Commonwealth Powers (Industrial Relations) Act 1996 and for other purposes."

INDEX

Subject	Section
Act
amendments to other Acts	19–20
application	16
commencement	2
Crown bound by	8
purposes	1
Australian Fair Pay Commission	3, 5
Australian Industrial Relations Commission	3, 5
Australian workplace agreements (def.)	3
Awards
definition	3, 4
designated preserved awards	3, 12
preserved awards	5–6, 12
preserved entitlements under	9–10
relevant awards	6, 9
Certified agreements (def.)	3
Commonwealth Act (def.)	3
Corporations legislation displacement provisions	15
Definitions	3–6, 9, 11
Designated preserved awards	3, 12
Employees (def.)	3, 11
Employment Advocate (def.)	3
Exceptional matters orders (def.)	3
Fairness test
definition	3
required for workplace agreements	10, 12–15
Family Provisions standard	3, 7
Industrial instruments (def.)	3
Minister	7, 17
Police	3
Pre-amendment Commonwealth Act (def.)	3
Preservation time (def.)	3
Preserved awards	5–6, 12
Preserved entitlements	9–10
Public sector employers
definition	3
duty to preserve award conditions of employees	10
exclusion of other legislation regarding	16
relevant awards binding on	6
workplace agreements offered to or by	10, 12–15
Regulations	18
Relevant awards	6, 9
Trade unions	3, 12–15
Workplace agreements
definition	3
fairness test	10, 12–15
Workplace determinations	3, 10
WRA	3, 12–13, 17