Proposed 2008 Commonwealth legislation

The Government has released a list of proposed legislation to be introduced in its first sittings in Autumn 2008.

In particular, the list specifies both introduction and passage in the Autumn sittings of the Workplace Relations Amendment (Transition to Forward with Fairness) Bill to introduce transitional arrangements for workplace agreements pending the introduction of a new workplace relations system in 2010 and allow the process of award modernisation to commence.