Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move Greens amendment (22) on sheet 5285:

(22)  Schedule 1, item 1, page 26 (lines 18 to 25), omit paragraph 346ZA(2)(b), substitute:

             (b)    to continue to be so bound until the time when the employee ceases to be employed by the employer.

This relates to the redundancy provisions in section 394. The bill provides that, where an agreement ceases to operate because it fails the fairness test and the agreement contained a redundancy provision, that redundancy provision continues to apply for 12 months or the employee is no longer employed by their employer, whichever is the earlier, or a new workplace agreement comes into operation. This amendment provides that the redundancy provision continues until the time the employee ceases to be employed, so it takes away the 12-month limit.