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1996-97
The Parliament of
the
Commonwealth of
Australia
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first
time
Workplace
Relations Amendment Bill 1997
No. ,
1997
(Industrial
Relations)
A Bill for an Act to amend the
Workplace Relations Act 1996, and for related
purposes
9711720—999/25.6.1997—(117/97) Cat. No. 96 9302 5 ISBN
0644 505974
Contents
Workplace Relations Act 1996 7wra00h1.html
A Bill for an Act to amend the Workplace Relations Act
1996, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Workplace Relations Amendment Act
1997.
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal
Assent.
Each Act 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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any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.
1 Subsection 170CE(1)
Omit “subsection (5)”, substitute “subsections (5) and
(5A)”.
2 After subsection 170CE(5)
Insert:
(5A) An application under subsection (1) may not be made on the ground
referred to in paragraph (1)(a), or on grounds that include that ground, by an
employee (other than an apprentice) whose employment has been terminated by the
employer if:
(a) the employee was first employed by the employer on or after the
commencement of the Workplace Relations Amendment Act 1997; and
(b) subsection (5B) applies to the employer.
(5B) This subsection applies to an employer for the purposes of subsection
(5A) if, at the time when the employer:
(a) gave the employee notice of the termination; or
(b) terminated the employee’s employment;
whichever happened first, the employer employed no more than 15 people,
counting:
(c) the employee whose employment was terminated; and
(d) any casual employee who had been engaged on a regular and systematic
basis for a sequence of periods of employment of at least 12 months;
but not counting any other casual employee.