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Fair Work Agency

Commons · Question 44608 · Tabled 7 Apr 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 28 Apr 2025

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Asked by Matt Vickers

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.

Answer

Answered by Justin Madders, 28 Apr 2025

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...