# Closing Loopholes enacts same-job-same-pay labour-hire orders

Date: 2023

## The fact

On 14 December 2023 the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Act 2023 received Royal Assent. Part 6 gives the Fair Work Commission power to make regulated labour-hire arrangement orders so labour-hire workers are paid no less than the host’s instrument — Labor’s same-job-same-pay policy. Wage-theft offences and industrial manslaughter also sat in the first tranche. Later FWC orders are children.

## Context

Secure Jobs 2022 sat as parent IR reset. Neighbouring CFMEU 2024 is a later union file. He did not sit as the FWC.

Secure Jobs December 2022 is the parent. Closing Loopholes No. 2 February 2024 is a child.

The Prime Minister of Australia chairs Cabinet and advises the Governor-General. Parliament enacts; the Governor-General assents. He does not write a High Court judgment, a state housing approval, or a US AUKUS submarine yard print.

## Evidence and sources

Federal Register of Legislation carries the official instrument or communique. Fair Work Commission records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [income inequality](/drivers/income-inequality) and [labour-market tightness](/drivers/labour-market-tightness): a completed same-job-same-pay labour-hire statute.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 14 December 2023 Royal Assent, independently placed on the FWC record.

Not established: that every labour-hire worker was thereby equalised that Thursday, or a unique later wage coefficient.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The Governor-General assented. He led Cabinet. The FWC makes orders. Hosts and labour-hire firms implement.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Closing Loopholes enacts same-job-same-pay labour-hire orders, not a later speech about Closing Loopholes enacts same-job-same-pay labour-hire orders.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Closing Loopholes enacts same-job-same-pay labour-hire orders on 2023-12-14 is not a licence to treat every later Federal Register of Legislation communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Closing Loopholes enacts same-job-same-pay labour-hire orders into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Parliament passed. The Governor-General assented. He led Cabinet. The FWC makes orders. Hosts and labour-hire firms implement. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Anthony Albanese: https://factrail.ai/people/anthony-albanese

## Drivers

- Income Inequality: https://factrail.ai/drivers/income-inequality
- Labour-Market Tightness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/labour-market-tightness

## Sources

- https://fwc.gov.au/about-us/new-laws/closing-loopholes-acts-whats-changing
- https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2023A00120/asmade

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/au-same-job-2023