| Heading: |
Fair Work Agency |
| Question ID: |
1792963 |
| UIN: |
44608 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-07 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4844 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Matt Vickers
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Matt Vickers
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure that enforcement powers for the Fair Work Agency are (a) proportionate and (b) equitable for (i) employees and (ii) businesses. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-28 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4418 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Justin Madders
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| Answering Member handle: |
justinmadders
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@justinmadders
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| Answer text: |
The Fair Work Agency (FWA) will not change the obligations on businesses who should always have been paying their workers correctly. The FWA’s enforcement powers are largely natural evolutions of powers that existing bodies have. The FWA will take a balan... |
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| Answering body ID: |
214 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Business and Trade |
| Tweeted: |
true |