Courts Can Make Workplace Protection Orders for Commonwealth Workers and Fines or Jail for Breaking Them
Commonwealth Workplace Protection Orders Bill 2025
House of Representatives
Senate
Assent
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Effects of this bill
If this bill passes, it means that:
It is a crime to break a condition of a Commonwealth workplace protection order.
Courts must keep the names of affected workers private during protection order proceedings.
The law applies to actions taken outside Australia.
Authorised people can apply for urgent interim orders by phone or fax.
Courts can change or cancel a Commonwealth workplace protection order.
The Minister must review how the law is working after three years.
Courts can make workplace protection orders to stop personal violence against Commonwealth workers or in Commonwealth workplaces.
People who break the conditions of a workplace protection order can be fined or jailed.
Courts can change or cancel a workplace protection order.
Allowed people can apply for urgent temporary orders by phone, fax, or other electronic means.
The names of affected workers cannot be published during court proceedings for a workplace protection order.
These laws apply to actions and events that happen both inside and outside Australia.
The Minister must review how the Act is working as soon as possible after it has been in place for three years.