Fair Work Amendment (Protected Industrial Action) Regulation 2014 (Cth)

Fair Work Amendment (Protected Industrial Action) Regulation 2014

Select Legislative Instrument No. 95, 2014

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 26 June 2014

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Eric Abetz

Minister for Employment

Contents

1............ Name of regulation............................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority............................................................................................ 1

4............ Schedule(s)......................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                            2

Fair Work Regulations 2009                                                                    2

1Name of regulation

This regulation is the Fair Work Amendment (Protected Industrial Action) Regulation 2014.

2Commencement

This regulation commences on the day after it is registered.

3Authority

This regulation is made under the Fair Work Act 2009.

4Schedule(s)

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Fair Work Regulations 2009

1  After Division 2 of Part 3‑3

Insert:

Division 6—Suspension or termination of protected industrial action by the FWC

3.10  Persons who can apply for an order to suspend or terminate protected industrial action

                  For subparagraph 424(2)(b)(iii) of the Act, the following persons may apply for an order suspending or terminating protected industrial action for a proposed enterprise agreement:

                    (a)  if the industrial action is being engaged in, or is threatened, impending or probable, in a State that is not a referring State as defined in section 30B or 30L of the Act—the Minister of the State who has responsibility for workplace relations matters in the State;

                    (b)  an organisation or other person directly affected, or who would be directly affected, by the industrial action other than an employee who will be covered by the agreement.