Ensuring_Integrity_Bill
Ensuring Integrity Bill
Name given to three bills introduced into the Parliament of Australia
The Ensuring Integrity Bill is the name given to three bills introduced into the Parliament of Australia:
- Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill 2017, a bill first introduced by the Turnbull government in 2017, lapsed on 1 July 2019[1][2]
- Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill 2019, a re-introduction of the bill in July 2019 by the Morrison government, defeated on 28 November 2019 in the Senate[3]
- Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity No. 2) Bill 2019, a re-introduction of the bill in December 2019 by the Morrison government, after the previous one was defeated a few days prior. Third reading was agreed to in House of Representatives on 5 December 2019.[4] In May 2020, the bill was shelved by the government.[5]
The bill proposes to:
- give the Federal Court of Australia power to cancel the registration of a registered organisation (that is, a union or an employer organisation) or disqualify office-holders from holding an office within an organisation;
- introduce offences for acting as an officeholder while disqualified; and
- introduce a public interest test for the amalgamation of registered organisations.[6]