# Secure Jobs, Better Pay receives Royal Assent

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 6 December 2022 the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Act 2022 received Royal Assent. It expanded multi-employer bargaining, abolished the Australian Building and Construction Commission, prohibited pay secrecy, and added sexual-harassment jurisdiction. Later Closing Loopholes same-job-same-pay is a child.

## Context

2022 election IR mandate sat as parent. Neighbouring CFMEU 2024 is a later union-integrity file. He did not sit as the Fair Work Commission.

Same-job-same-pay December 2023 is a child. CFMEU administration 2024 is a later neighbour.

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. Department of Employment and Workplace Relations records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [labour-market tightness](/drivers/labour-market-tightness) and [income inequality](/drivers/income-inequality): a completed bargaining-power statute.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 6 December 2022 Royal Assent, independently placed on the departmental record.

Not established: a unique later wage-price coefficient from that Tuesday, or that every small business was uniquely covered that day.

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 Fair Work Commission administers.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Secure Jobs, Better Pay receives Royal Assent, not a later speech about Secure Jobs, Better Pay receives Royal Assent.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Secure Jobs, Better Pay receives Royal Assent on 2022-12-06 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 Secure Jobs, Better Pay receives Royal Assent into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Parliament passed. The Governor-General assented. He led Cabinet. The Fair Work Commission administers. 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

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

## Sources

- https://www.dewr.gov.au/secure-jobs-better-pay
- https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2022A00079/asmade

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/au-secure-jobs-2022