Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2012

Public bill · Private Member · Introduced

The Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2012 would protect non-national workers who had taken all reasonably available steps to comply with employment-permit rules. They could claim unpaid wages and enforce employment rights as if they held a valid permit, while a person charged with breaking the rules could defend themselves by showing they had taken reasonable steps to comply.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to protect non-national workers from exploitation by providing a due diligence defence for such workers and also to preclude employers from avoiding liability through reliance upon the illegality of a contract of employment and for that purpose to amend the Employment Permits Act 2003 and to provide for related matters

Last updated 12 April 2018