Contents

Part 1                    Preliminary

                    1.01     Name of Regulations                                                        5

                    1.02     Commencement                                                              5

                    1.03     Definitions                                                                       5

Part 2                    Transitional provisions for Part 2 of Schedule 2 to Act (regulations about transitional matters)

Division 1                Redundancy pay applications

                    2.01     Redundancy pay applications -- continuing Schedule 6 instrument     7

                    2.02     Redundancy pay applications -- transitional instrument      8

Division 2                Obligations for employee records and records for transferring employees

                    2.03     Employer obligations for employee records made before WR Act repeal day     8

                    2.04     Obligations for transfer of records concerning transferring employee     9

                    2.05     WR Regulations continue to apply to records for transferring employee made before WR Act repeal day                                                                               10

Part 3                    Transitional provisions for Schedule 3 to Act (continued existence of awards, workplace agreements and certain other WR Act instruments)

                    3.01     Meaning of base rate of pay -- transitional instrument applies to pieceworker   12

                    3.02     Employee not award/agreement free if transitional instrument applies -- meaning of pieceworker                                                                                    13

                    3.03     Employee to whom transitional instrument applies -- usual weekly hours of work         14

Part 4                    Transitional provisions for Schedule 8 to Act (workplace agreements and workplace determinations made under WR Act)

                    4.01     When Workplace Authority Director must consider whether union collective agreement passes no‑disadvantage test                                                      15

                    4.02     Continued application of Schedules 7A and 7B to WR Act to AWA and pre-transition collective agreement                                                                     16

                    4.03     Variation of AWA or pre-transition collective agreement after WR Act repeal day           16

                    4.04     References to Workplace Ombudsman taken to be references to Fair Work Ombudsman          17

Part 5                    Miscellaneous and transitional civil remedy provisions

                    5.01     Regulation 1.1 of Chapter 2 of WR Regulations does not apply to Schedule 5 to the Act            18

                    5.02     General Manager of FWA must prepare AFPC Secretariat's annual report        18

                    5.03     Powers of Fair Work Inspector -- contravention of section 34 of the Independent Contractors Act 2006                                                                             18

                    5.04     Continued application of provisions to documents sealed by Australian Industrial Registry         18

                    5.05     Continued application of provision to award printed on or after WR Act repeal day         19

                    5.06     Applications for orders in relation to contraventions of civil remedy provisions    19

                    5.07     Section 557 of FW Act taken to apply to transitional civil remedy provision       20

                    5.08     When a reference to a civil remedy provision taken to include transitional civil remedy provision  21

                    5.09     References to employee, employer and employment taken to be reference to transitional employee, transitional employer and employment                             21

                    5.10     References to employee and employer taken to be references to national system employee and national system employer                                               21

                    5.11     Item 11 of Schedule 2 to the Act does not apply to provisions of WR Act not repealed by Schedule 1 to the Act                                                                   22

 

 

 

  

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