Legislation Update: Fair Work Amendment (Transfer of Business) Bill 2012 (Cth)

The Federal government has introduced legislation in the form of the Fair Work Amendment (Transfer of Business) Bill 2012 aimed at protecting employee entitlements where there is a transfer of business from an old State employer to a national system employer. 

"Instead of having to get your entitlements paid out, you can transfer them across and you can transfer your conditions across," said Queensland Council of Unions president John Battams. 

The Bill provides amendments to the "transfer of business" area of the 2009 Fair Work Act. It will cover situations where the former public servants go across to the new private sector firm, but not where the public servants take a redundancy and then take up a new position as new employees.    The Bill is currently before the House of Representatives as at 15 October 2012. 

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