{"id":"F2010L03029","name":"Fair Work (State Declarations - employer not to be national system employer) Endorsement 2010 (No. 2)","slug":"fair-work-state-declarations-employer-not-to-be-national-system-employer-endorsement-2010-no-2","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":437528,"registerId":"F2010L03029-fast-fetch-1775954326127","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Fair Work (State Declarations - employer not to be national system employer) Endorsement 2010 (No. 2)","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![](image.001.png)\n\nFair Work (State Declarations — employer not to be national system employer) Endorsement 2010 (No. 2)\n\nFair Work Act 2009\n\nI, CHRIS EVANS, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations, make this Endorsement under paragraph 14 (4) (a) of the Fair Work Act 2009.\n\nDated 8 November 2010\n\n \n\nChris Evans\n\nMinister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations\n\nContents\n\n1  Name of Endorsement \n\n2  Commencement \n\n3  Definition \n\n4  Endorsement of State Declarations \n\nSchedule 1 Employers declared by or under a law of a State not to be a national system employer             \n\nPart 1 Employers declared by or under a law of Queensland not to be a national system employer             \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n1 Name of Endorsement\n\n  This Endorsement is the Fair Work (State Declarations — employer not to be national system employer) Endorsement 2010 (No. 2).\n\n2 Commencement\n\n  This Endorsement commences on 1 December 2010.\n\n3 Definition\n\n  In this Endorsement:\n\nAct means the Fair Work Act 2009.\n\n4 Endorsement of State Declarations\n\n (1) For paragraph 14 (4) (a) of the Act, a declaration, by or under a law of a State mentioned in an item in Schedule 1 that an employer mentioned in that item is not to be a national system employer for the purposes of the Act, is endorsed.\n\n (2) The endorsement of a declaration in relation to an employer mentioned in an item in Schedule 1 takes effect from the date mentioned in that item.\n\nSchedule 1 Employer declared by or under a law of a State not to be a national system employer\n\n(section 4)\n\n \n\n \n\nPart 1 Employer declared by or under a law of Queensland not to be a national system employer\n\n \n\n \n\n| Item | Law of Queensland | Employer | Date of effect of endorsement |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Industrial Relations Regulation 2000 | Skills Queensland | 1 December 2010 |\n|  |  |  |  |\n\n\nNote\n\n1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See http://www.frli.gov.au\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument performs exactly the function described in its title and enabling provision (Fair Work Act 2009, section 14(4)(a)). It endorses a specific state declaration for a single employer. There is no evidence of scope creep; it is a targeted, technical instrument doing precisely what the legislative framework anticipates."},"complexity_factors":["Very short document (approximately 1 page of substantive content)","Only 1 defined term ('Act')","Simple structure: name, commencement, one definition, one operative section, and a schedule table","No nested exceptions or conditional logic","Single cross-reference to Fair Work Act 2009, section 14(4)(a)","Schedule contains only 1 entry in a simple table format"],"plain_english_summary":"This endorsement under the Fair Work Act formally approves a Queensland law that keeps Skills Queensland outside Australia’s national workplace relations system, so it remains subject to Queensland industrial relations law.\n\nIt therefore affects Skills Queensland and its employees by confirming their workplace rights and dispute processes are governed by state (not federal) law, removing uncertainty about which jurisdiction applies."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Endorsement does not change the statutory criteria for who is a national system employer; it simply endorses a State declaration that removes Skills Queensland from national-system employer status effective 1 December 2010 (see section 4 and Schedule 1)."},"complexity_factors":["Cross-reference to the Fair Work Act (paragraph 14(4)(a)) requires checking another statute to understand legal effect (section 4).","Dependence on a State law declaration — effect arises from intergovernmental linkage rather than standalone federal rules (Schedule 1).","Narrow, single-employer scope (Skills Queensland) reduces substantive complexity but increases need for precision in application (Schedule 1, Item 1).","Fixed commencement date creates a temporal threshold for coverage (section 2; Schedule 1).","Formality of ministerial endorsement and registration signals administrative steps and record-keeping (instrument form and Note 1 referencing FRLI).","Potential for compliance uncertainty at the federal–state interface about which industrial instruments apply to affected staff."],"plain_english_summary":"This Endorsement formally accepts a Queensland law that declares Skills Queensland is not a \"national system employer\" under the Fair Work Act, effective 1 December 2010. 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