2023

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Presented and read a first time

Fair Work Act (Wage Increase 2:Electric Boogaloo) Amendment Bill 2023

No.    , 2023

Model-pierogi MP

Written by model-pierogi, model-trask

A Bill for an Act to amend the Fair Work Act 2009 to increase the minimum national wage.

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Short title

        This Act may be cited as the Fair Work Act (Wage Increase 2:Electric Boogaloo) Amendment Act 2023.

2  Commencement

1. Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note:         This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

(2)        Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3  Schedules

        Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

4  Crown to be bound

        This Act binds the Crown and the Commonwealth in all its capacities.

5  Objects of this Act

        The objects of this Act are:

1. to increase the national minimum wage;
2. to allow the Fair Work Commission to determine a phase in period for the national minimum wage

Schedule 1—Amendments to the Fair Work Act 2009

Fair Work Act 2009

1  Subsection 294(1)(a)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(1)  A national minimum wage order:

                     (a)  must be at least 70% of the median hourly wage

2 Part 9 — Amendments made by the Fair Work Amendment (Wage Increase) Act 2023

Repeal subsection 40, substitute:

40. Definitions

amending Act  means the Fair Work Amendment (Wage Increase 2:Electric Boogaloo) Act 2023

phase period  is the period of time during which the effect of any increases in the national minimum wage that will be required because of subsection 294(1)(a) (as inserted by the amending Act) are to be phased in.